While I agree that SESTA is a bad idea, does anyone have the full context for this quote from Blumenthal? > Goldman: There's no doubt that the legitimate playe

While I agree that SESTA is a bad idea, does anyone have the full context for this quote from Blumenthal? > Goldman: There's no doubt that the legitimate players will do everything they can to not only work with the law enforcement and other advocates to address sex trafficking and will do more than they even do today. At the same time, the industry is not just the big players. There is a large number of smaller players who don't have the same kind of infrastructure. And for them they have to make the choice: can I afford to do the work that you're hoping they will do. > Blumenthal: And I believe that those outliers -- and they are outliers -- will be successfully prosecuted, civilly and criminally under this law. I'd like to believe a more charitable interpretation he misunderstood the point of Goldman's question and the "outliers" he's referring to are the "illegitimate players" (as opposed to the "legitimate players" that Goldman references). I personally doubt that he was saying that the "smaller players" are the outliers who will be prosecuted. IMO, saying "But in that unusual moment of candor, Sen. Blumenthal seemed to lay bare his opinions about Internet startups—he thinks of them as unimportant outliers and would prefer that the new law put them out of business" is quite disingenuous. The zinger at the end weakens the quote with its trite outrage. Just having the first part of the quote -- "But in that unusual moment of candor, Sen. Blumenthal seemed to lay bare his opinions about Internet startups—he thinks of them as unimportant outliers" -- would be a more accurate characterization, and is just as powerful.