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Information
- A.k.a.
- I am Jane Doe
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 98 min.
- Director
- Mary Mazzio
- Genre
- Documentary
- Rating *
- 6.8
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 88
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 2
- Favs/checks
- 2.3% (1:44)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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xianjiro
Simply maddening.
Maddening because of the subject matter - the trafficking of underage women for sex, against their will, for profit - but even more maddening because the filmmakers fail to address the 230 billion ton elephant in the room: Section 230 of the CDA and why courts, time and again have found no legal reason why a young girl's rights to her own person do NOT supersede the right to publish and profit off of illegal vice crimes as well as the violation of human and civil rights. The film's creators say: look at the elephant. The elephant is right there. The elephant's really big. There's a big elephant standing right there. It will take an act of Congress to move this elephant but Congress, while pontificating about the elephant's immensity and proximity, isn't able to actually do anything about the elephant, it's being, it's location, and the youthful lives that continue to make it fatter and more unmovable.
Well, that is, until Congress finally acted in 2018 and courts finally considered holding the owners and feeders of the elephant responsible ...
Everyone (who isn't an adult and willing participant in this trade) is horrified. We get that it's awful 15 minutes in and we get that nothing's being done not long after that. We hear lots of folks talking about how sick it makes them, but no one broaches the subject as to why Section 230 is so inviolable.
Ugh.
Too much emotion (positive and negative) and not enough discussion about how money twists the legislative and judicial branches around their hallowed pillars and seemingly pillories the Republic's good sense. I don't doubt the earnestness of the filmmakers, but maybe someone needs to cross documentary filmmaking and investigative journalism - both pedagogy and programs - to do something more, that gets at the questions the viewers are asking. To anticipate the questions forming in viewer's heads and answer them and not just play the old "oh, isn't it just terrible" card. Handwringing. More handwringing. 3 years 5 months ago