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.
FOSTA/SESTA is a horrible law and it has done a lot of damage.
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.
... 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.
I run this one:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pgp-everywhere/id1011677987
Seems rather like it exists to me.