• This anti-sex trafficking law could end internet freedom (Vox)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBaqDjPCH8k
I first heard about this in a post on Imgur. I feel bad for not making a thread about it earlier since I didn't know how to go about it.
What's disturbing is that nearly Democrat in the Senate voted for FOSTA. More proof that we definitely need new progressive blood in the national government, instead of all the old farts who don't understand the internet well enough to be a consistent advocate for its free existence.
Destroy the beehives and you'll run out of honey. This isn't going to stop the wasps from attacking the beehive, it's just going to make it into a hornets nest. You take a genuine service and flush it down the toilet, things get not so genuine after the fact. There are those in power who don't even use the internet, they just let other people deal with that stuff for them.
I think the only thing this affects is prostitution and sex trafficking. Of course any amendment to the idea that a website isn't responsible for user generated content can be scary, but the scope of this law in particular shouldn't affect a ton - the claim "end internet freedom" is a lot.
There's a difference between "allowing content" and having that not allowed content slip past unknowingly (and making an effort to prevent and actively removing/reporting offending content). I mean right in the video he mentions phone companies, illegal happenings go on there all the time, no one claims they're "allowing" those activities. And they probably hand over information of known offenders if requested, something any website would probably do too. Nothing as draconian as holding the website publishers responsible.
Yeah, I agree the law isn't necessary and bad but my point is more that I don't know if this will really snowball into anything like the "end of the internet freedom." The issue is more so that this screws over sex workers like cam girls and so on; they didn't really present a realistic way how the language would or could be abused to affect the internet at large imo. I could be wrong though of course!
Isn't this law a violation of the first and fourth amendment?
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