UPDATE: As anticipated, on Monday, February 26, the U.S. House Rules Committee sent FOSTA 2.0 and a SESTA-like amendment from Rep. Mimi Walters to the House floor for debate and a vote on Tuesday. This FOSTA/SESTA “Frankenstein bill” passed on…
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, took aim Tuesday at the world’s oldest profession, adding yet another legislative proposal to address a problem that is largely overhyped: online sex trafficking. Goodlatte’s remarks came during…
What do you do with an expert witness who doesn’t say what you want to hear? If you’re the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, you make like he never opened his mouth. That’s…
Being against the nonprofit online encyclopedia Wikipedia is like being against NPR, used book stores, frozen Snickers bars, rainbow-striped over-the-knee toe socks, and the Muppets. So it would stand to reason that threatening to do harm to the free, near-fathomless…
When it comes to the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), will U.S. Senator Ron Wyden be the internet’s Little Dutch Boy, saving the day by plugging a leaky legislative dike? Or will Wyden’s latest efforts against the…
One thing you can say about the Internet Association, which reps such tech-industry giants as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter: It ain’t Captain Smith on the Titanic. In other words, it isn’t going down with the ship. At least not willingly. On…
Technology law expert Eric Goldman, one of the most ardent foes of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), explained in a recent interview with FrontPage Confidential that he now believes Congressional passage of SESTA is as inevitable as…
As the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA) wends through Congress, technology-law professor Eric Goldman is the modern-day equivalent of Cassandra warning her fellow Trojans about the wisdom of keeping that big wooden horse around. In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed…
If you’ve been following the advance of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) through the U.S. Senate, you’re aware that the legislation threatens to rip a hole through the legal principle that has kept the internet free and thriving: i.e., that interactive…
Among a cadre of enlightened writers and reporters who regularly address tech issues there is a shared realization that many of those agitating for the amendment of Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) are also…
