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I love what's happening with #SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act. Which did tremendously well in the Senate Commerce Committee. Senator Feinstein loves it. Senator Portman and Senator Blumenthal are sponsoring it. Sheryl from Facebook loves it, Facebook is all for it. 21st Century Fox, which is Fox News, loves it. Disney, which does great work with our precious children, loves it. Google, Oracle and HP, some of our biggest cyber companies, love it. Almost everybody loves it.
But some LOSERS don't love it. They don't get it. They say "Oh, SESTA is censorship!" It's not censorship. Believe me, it's not censorship. The Consumer Technology Association, the Internet Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation -- these are foolish people. They don't understand that we need to close up our internet. To stop the pimping that has turned America's internet into a big, big brothel. The biggest. As you know, we're having major, major problems with the pimping sites. The pimps have taken over our internet. SESTA can fix this problem easily and quickly. We can begin to #LockThemUp. China was having tremendous problems with its cyber, they got it under control. We must do the same. Folks, tell your senators, don't listen to the fools. Don't listen to the losers. Tell them to pass SESTA! We need it very badly. Time is quickly running out, we must act fast, and hopefully Congress will act faster and more effectively than anyone. I know one thing about Congress, if they work on it hard, it will happen. We DESPERATELY need SESTA. I am sitting in Beijing with a pen in hand, waiting for our senators to give it to me. I have pen in hand. Believe me, I'm in China, I have pen in hand. 🇺🇸🇨🇳
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 09 2017, @04:14PM (3 children)
Can somebody smart name a hypothetical worst-case-of-abuse scenario? The only thing I can think of is Backpage and certain sections of Craigslist taken down.
I mean, shit, Facebook and Google/Youtube are already censoring political opinion and other "offensive language" and nobody's got the power to do a goddamn thing about it except for not using their services. What difference does it really make if they're now censoring phrases like "ho's on the Boulevard" or some such nonsense? What are they gonna do, ban every rap song in existence (never mind the fact that to do so would be racist)?
And of course the obligatory conspiracy theory: The Weinstein debacle caught the Democrats off-guard, so this is pre-emptive damage-control for when Dems' involvement in human trafficking is inevitably exposed. What is it now, 36 sealed indictments in DC?
(Score: 3, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday November 09 2017, @04:49PM
SESTA will let us bring CRIMINAL CHARGES against the crooked sites. The sites that are full of Harvey Weinsteins and Kevin Spaceys. We'll be able to LOCK UP the crooked administrators. Right now it's very, very difficult for us to do that, because of the Communications Decency Act. Which was signed by President Clinton, President Bill Clinton. Sounds nice, it is not nice, it is not good. It hasn't been good and we have been against it.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Thursday November 09 2017, @05:08PM (1 child)
So who again is censoring "ho's on the Boulevard"? Facebook and Google? Or the US government? Because there is a huge difference here between those legally. SESTA makes providers liable for the speech of their users - that's censorship by government (a huge violation of the First Amendment). With slight modification from the usual suspects, it could make US-side administrators of SN liable for certain things a certain Ethanol-Fueled might say about the Jews or women (hate speech, ya know), unless they police the forum and remove said speech.
Please think about the consequences. Such tools can be used against you.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 09 2017, @09:28PM
Hey, I knew it was a bad thing, I was just too goddamn lazy (and busy this morning) to really dig and determine why -- though I figured it was something about something creeping censorship...something slippery-slope...mumble mumble.