Well, free speech online is basically over. It was good while it lasted
So under the noses of everyone during the March For Our Trojan Horse "protests", FOSTA was passed. The bill, intended to curtail online advertisement of prostitution is so appalling, you'd have to be evil or moronic to say it will work or not have stunning consequences.
By being able to hold the owners of a website criminally accountable for illegal postings of its users, free speech is essentially dead and we can be tried for the acts of others. Glossing over the fact that someone cannot legally sell access to their body for money (unless a camera is involved) and how brain dead this is, since when was it ok for someone to be tried for what someone else did? If someone bought a hammer from Home Depot and decided it was hammer time in the middle of a grocery store, the Home Depot isn't accountable for their actions right?
Already the chilling effects can be seen. Craigslist pulled its entire personals section, reddit has axed a multitude of subreddits, and the FBI has raided and seized backpage, a personals and job listing site.
