The Trump administration has aggressively rolled back efforts across the federal government to combat human trafficking, a Guardian investigation has found.

The sweeping retreat threatens to negate decades of progress in the drive to prevent sexual slavery, forced labor and child sexual exploitation, according to legal experts, former government officials and anti-trafficking advocates. They say the administration’s moves are impeding efforts to prosecute perpetrators and protect survivors in the United States and around the world.

“It’s been a widespread and multi-pronged attack on survivors that leaves all of us less safe and leaves survivors with few options,” said Jean Bruggeman, executive director of Freedom Network USA, a national coalition of service providers, researchers and trafficking survivors.

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    6 hours ago

    It’s what tribalism got us.

    I guarantee you, most of the people voting for Trump don’t get exposed to anti-conservative ideas because they’re banned from interacting with liberals on most social media.

    Each time someone gets banned on reddit for sharing a conservative viewpoint, however incorrect it may be, becomes a conservative for life and gets pushed further towards its culture.

    We need more spaces on the internet where people can freely share their ideas without fear of censorship. Moderators can genuinely go fuck themselves with how much they’ve gotten in the way of allowing different sides to communicate. They helped cause this divide and do their damnedest to keep it going.

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      You don’t get banned from social media for having “conservative views”. Only for hurting others. Have you been trying to hurt others?