Report: FCC Nominee On Board That Supports Online Sex Work

Gigi Sohn, President Biden's pick for a vacant seat on the Federal Communications Commission, is a member of a nonprofit that wants to uphold sex work online, and which honors sex workers including a dominatrix.  

The Daily Mail reports the organization is called the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is designed to protect free speech online.

The group protested against SESTA - a legislation introduced under the Trump administration - that cracks down on sex trafficking in 2017, claiming it would 'censor' sex work. 

Sohn, 61, took her seat on the EFF's board in 2018, two years before the organization honored a sex worker called Mistress Blunt. 

Blunt, who sells her work on OnlyFans and other sites, was celebrated in 2020 with the EFF's 'Pioneer Award'.  

They have since partnered together again to protect sex workers' 'digital rights'. 

Sohn is up for a seat on the FCC for the second time, but the vote on whether or not she'll be sworn in remains in a deadlock.  If she is given the position, she would tip the board's Democratic majority. 

A spokesman for EFF told  DailyMail.com that Sohn had no role in selecting Blunt for the Pioneer Award. 

Sohn indicated in a February 2022 letter to the acting General Counsel for the FCC that she would step down from EFF if her government appointment was confirmed.