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What a great write up. The bill is rather dangerous, and I’m immediately suspicious of anything claiming to help children in the context of legislation. FOSTA/
by t223 7y ago
What a great write up. The bill is rather dangerous, and I’m immediately suspicious of anything claiming to help children in the context of legislation.
FOSTA/SESTA is a horrible law and it has done a lot of damage.
- mschuster91 7y agoFOSTA/SESTA was intended to cause lots of damage.
- pmiller2 7y agoTrue, but arguably it wasn’t intended to cause the specific types of damage it caused, and its actual targets suffered less than expected.
- DuskStar 7y agoA cynical person would say that this is because the stated targets weren't actually the targets, just like with this act. (Stated targets: sex traffickers, real targets: tech companies offering e2e encryption)
- xvector 7y agoYes, IMO FOSTA/SESTA were deliberately malicious and yet another successful attempt to force puritanical ideals upon our citizens, regardless of the damage it would cause. The senators who initiated the bill are not dumb. They knew exactly how it would play out.
- chimeracoder 7y ago> The senators who initiated the bill are not dumb. They knew exactly how it would play out. Blumenthal (who wrote SESTA and also this bill) was waging a war against consensual sex work for years, long before he was elected to the Senate. The fallout from SESTA was not accidental; it was by design.
- pjc50 7y agoThe intended target was sex workers, far more so than pimps.
- frandroid 7y agoThere was plenty of warning of the effects of these bills on sex workers. Legislators at best ignored them, and at worst were happy for these side effects, depending on where they sit of the political spectrum.
- ne9xt 7y agoMaybe I'm missing something, but I can see how this would apply to a platform providing end-to-end encryption and how restricting that is a bad thing. What's to stop someone from using, e.g. PGP in an email? Isn't that outside the scope of this?
- shadowgovt 7y agoMaybe. ... or maybe the Attorney General can declare that a service that allows PGP-encrypted communiques is in violation and will lose its 230 protections. The law as constructed is way over-broad.
- wmf 7y agoThere aren't PGP plugins for mobile apps and people wouldn't use them if there were.
- paulryanrogers 7y agoK9mail has at least two
- jki275 7y agoReally? I run this one: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pgp-everywhere/id1011677987 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pgp-everywhere/id1011677987 Seems rather like it exists to me.