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EFF Sues To Invalidate FOSTA, An Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law (eff.org)
schwit1 quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: 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. In our lawsuit, two human rights organizations, an individual advocate for sex workers, a certified non-sexual massage therapist, and the Internet Archive, are challenging the law as an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fifth Amendments. Although the law was passed by Congress for the worthy purpose of fighting sex trafficking, its broad language makes criminal of those who advocate for and provide resources to adult, consensual sex workers and actually hinders efforts to prosecute sex traffickers and aid victims. The EFF goes on to cite some examples of how FOSTA has already censored the internet. Most notably, two days after FOSTA was passed in the Senate, "Craigslist eliminated its Personals section, including non-sexual subcategories such as 'Missed Connections' and 'Strictly Platonic,'" reports the EFF. Reddit even removed some of its subreddits out of fear of future lawsuits.
Why wouldn't Bernie support something like this? Nothing he's done shows he values personal liberty. He thinks plebeians are too stupid to make their own choices and need to be told what to do.
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Snyone know why Bernie voted for this? Was it really just that he feared the Repubs using it in a "think of the children" line of attack?
After he [recently] said that SHS should be allowed to eat dinner in peace in spite of directly aiding and abetting the administration's Naziesque policies of holding children hostage in order to get legislation passed, I'm assuming that he's given up on being a leftist, and resigned himself to being a centrist so that he can be more effective. The problem is that doesn't work. The whole reason people who went on to vote for Trump were willing to vote for Bernie is that he was espousing far-left views, and the fact even he can't seem to see that any more is reason enough to forget about him and put your energy behind a more progressive candidate.
You can't make friends with Nazis, but he sure is trying.
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