FSTDT Forums

Community => Politics and Government => Topic started by: Lana Reverse on February 28, 2018, 05:41:15 pm

Title: FOSTA Discussion Thread
Post by: Lana Reverse on February 28, 2018, 05:41:15 pm

https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/28/fosta (https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/28/fosta)

If you want this bill to be stopped, there's a link on this page (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/fosta-would-be-disaster-online-communities).

Title: Re: FOSTA Discussion Thread
Post by: dpareja on February 28, 2018, 05:49:55 pm

Prostitution should be like drugs: legalised, taxed, and regulated.

Title: Re: FOSTA Discussion Thread
Post by: ironbite on February 28, 2018, 06:25:11 pm

End of thread.

Title: Re: FOSTA Discussion Thread
Post by: dpareja on March 01, 2018, 03:13:09 am

Also, if EFF is accurate on this bill applying retroactively, that's a flagrant violation of the US Constitution's prohibition on ex post facto laws. Fuck I hate agreeing with Liberty Caucus types, but Rep. Amash appears to be completely correct on that.

And here's the House vote if you want to bug your Representative (or praise them if they voted against):

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll091.xml

And while the Senate's bill on the matter hasn't had a vote... it does have 66 cosponsors, so you can bug them too.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1693/cosponsors

Title: Re: FOSTA Discussion Thread
Post by: Lana Reverse on March 27, 2018, 08:06:44 pm

Well, it passed (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-law-that-killed-craigslists-personals-could-end-the-web-as-weve-known-it).

Title: Re: FOSTA Discussion Thread
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on March 28, 2018, 02:52:01 am

It passed. Craiglist removed the personals section and Pounced.org (a furry dating website) both shut down because of it.