I hate this. SESTA is a poorly drafted law. While it's responding to a real, serious problem — sex trafficking of minors online — it's lack of specificity means

I hate this. SESTA is a poorly drafted law. While it's responding to a real, serious problem — sex trafficking of minors online — it's lack of specificity means it will be interpreted extremely broadly and lead to dangerous precedents. We lobbied against it. I personally spent a lot of time in congressional offices warning about exactly this outcome. And, just yesterday, I spent much of my day with our General Counsel pleading about the dangers of a slippery slope. But, the law is the law, and we need to follow the law. Regulating content online is a terrible role for deep infrastructure companies like Cloudflare to play. And it's far from the end. The same thing is coming for ISPs, registrars, and DNS providers over the days ahead. Ideally, Congress needs to clarify which services are "interactive computer services" under SESTA and which are not. Until then, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Craigslist, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, AWS, Microsoft, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Level(3), and many others will err on the side of caution — and silently sites will disappear from the Internet. If you're concerned, and live in the United States, please call your congress person and let them know that deep infrastructure companies aren't the right places to regulate what content can and cannot be online.