Electronic Frontier foundation sues to overturn FOSTA/Sesta

[Walker1]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eff-sues-invalidate-fosta-unconstitutional-internet-censorship-law

 

Wow just when I was losing hope and thought this country was doomed to become a gulag. The scary portion of the new FOSTA below. Not making it political, but the way they are going after that Manafort fella for some crime from 8 years ago, locking up a 70 year old man for 23 hrs a day in solitary-I shudder to think what they will do to the ordinary man on the street armed with these powers and who knows what laws/crimes this bipartisan group will conjure up to feed the prison industrial complex?

 

"First, it created an entirely new federal crime by adding a new section to the Mann Act. The new law makes it a crime to “own, manage or operate” an online service with the intent to “promote or facilitate” “the prostitution of another person.” That crime is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The law further makes it an “aggravated offense,” punishable by up to 25 years in prison and also subject to civil lawsuits if “facilitation” was of the prostitution of 5 or more persons, or if it was done with “reckless disregard” that it “contributed to sex trafficking.” An aggravated violation may also be the basis for an individual’s civil lawsuit. The prior version of the Mann Act only made it illegal to physically transport a person across state lines for the purposes of prostitution."

How the above section even pertains to sex trafficking is beyond me. Then after what they did to backpage, scary times indeed!

[+ honcho]

I've given to the EFF before; this prompted me to do so again, although it wasn't a lot.