Electronic Frontier Foundation sues to invalidate FOSTA

[Sir Lancehernot]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/0...censorship-law

We are asking a court to declare the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (“FOSTA”) unconstitutional and prevent it from being enforced. The law was written so poorly that it actually criminalizes a substantial amount of protected speech and, according to experts, actually hinders efforts to prosecute sex traffickers and aid victims.

[Cupsondeck]

Good

[rexdutchman]

yupper good

[CG2014]

The EFF has a record of winning and getting stupid laws overturned and struck down.

Also have you noticed just about every website came out with new terms of services after FOSTA was passed?

Websites such as Google Mail and Yahoo Mail and Facebook that have nothing to do with sex work.

Also immediately after FOSTA and SESTA and especially rampant in the past couple of weeks, almost every website I have been to, from movies to news to anything you can think of, none of them adult websites, have this message or something similar to it that you have to click on and accept before you can view anything on their websites:

We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website

(you have to click on More info and OK or ACCEPT or GOT IT)

We have updated the term of service for use of our website

(you have to click on More info to see the new term and then click ACCEPT).

Or if you have an account with the website that requires a log in, you will even get that in the mail, websites like PayPal.

All those are FOSTA SESTA related, sites trying to cover their own asses.

They don't want any user to even use the P and H words on their sites because they are afraid that will make them legally liable and be prosecuted under FOSTA.

[snoozer]

The changes on these websites requiring you to accept the use of cookies are driven more by the recent enactment of a new EU privacy regulation called GDPR and not FOSTA. Almost every company that wants to have an online presence in Europe are required to comply or risk massive fines.

[rexdutchman]

Really just the feds trying to tax the interwebs like the eu