New US law SESTA/FOSTA ban specific user content. Severe penalties for webmasters
The new US SESTA/FOSTA acts remove protection of website owners for the content that users add to the website, when it comes to specific content. It also seems to make webmasters liable for the ads that ad networks display on their sites. These bills silence online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users.Microsoft and Google already amended their policies and hosting providers are stopping service to some websites.
SESTA/FOSTA take aim at website with sexual content which may relate to promotion OR facilitating of prostitution, sex trafficking, fraud, coercion. The bills are obviously written without careful consideration and have been rushed through congress. It seems to me that they may have severe unintended consequences.
The penalties for breaching the law are up to 10 or 25 years in jail, so this is pretty serious and needs to be considered.
While the general jest of the bills sound reasonable, it does make me wonder how far the reach of these...
SESTA/FOSTA take aim at website with sexual content which may relate to promotion OR facilitating of prostitution, sex trafficking, fraud, coercion. The bills are obviously written without careful consideration and have been rushed through congress. It seems to me that they may have severe unintended consequences.
The penalties for breaching the law are up to 10 or 25 years in jail, so this is pretty serious and needs to be considered.
While the general jest of the bills sound reasonable, it does make me wonder how far the reach of these...
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