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I'm curious if this only made possible by the recent SESTA/FOSTA law that was passed. It's not like Backpage is anything new, so why take it down now? If it i

by iooi 9y ago

I'm curious if this only made possible by the recent SESTA/FOSTA law that was passed. It's not like Backpage is anything new, so why take it down now? If it is related to those laws, this is significant precedent for websites being responsible for user posted content. I'm afraid of what it's going to do to communities like Reddit and HN. If I post a zero-day in the comments section here, YC could be responsible for the damages it causes.

delecti 9y ago
As far as I can tell, SESTA/FOSTA hasn't been signed into law yet.
totalZero 9y ago
> I'm curious if this only made possible by the recent SESTA/FOSTA law that was passed. It's not like Backpage is anything new, so why take it down now? It has not been signed into law yet, so it couldn't be. Now that the seizure has happened, the bill wouldn't apply to it even if signed, because A1S9 of the US Constitution states: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. Here's the legislation: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865 https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865
dragonwriter 9y ago
> I'm curious if this only made possible by the recent SESTA/FOSTA law that was passed. That hasn't been signed into law yet, though the claim that they couldn't effectively deal with sites like Backpage without it was one of the (blatantly false, and now even more clearly so) selling points of the law.