EFF Sues to Block Anti-Sex-Trafficking Legislation
A recently passed anti-sex-trafficking law is unconstitutional, censors speech protecting sex workers and forces general interest forums offline due to liability fears, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others argued in a lawsuit. The group, which includes two human rights organizations,…
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a digital library, a sex worker activist and a massage therapist, asked U.S. District Court in Washington to block enforcement of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers-Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking (SESTA-FOSTA) package (see 1805020053). “FOSTA is the most comprehensive censorship of internet speech in America in the last 20 years,” said EFF Civil Liberties Director David Greene Thursday. “Despite good intentions, Congress wrote an awful and harmful law, and it must be struck down.” DOJ didn't comment.