Lots of posts about opsec items from before the new law. But it's a different beast.
Basically, Fucksta/SESTA gives any hooker a great big blackmail hammer. Against some very large targets. Some sharksters are going to start figuring that out, and asking girls for sob stories. The fireworks will be something to watch!
What computer system gets used to facilitate nearly every act of prostitution in the world today?
Hint: it's in one of the major slang terms for prostitute.
"Call girl" anyone?
Right -- the phone systems! F/S says they are liable. Probably fight it by claiming to be a "regulated communications carrier" and not a "computer system" -- and the sharksters on both sides of that one will be, erm, "highly compensated". Won't much matter to the attorneys who wins. Both sides with have plenty of fucking-around money afterward.
Other targets abound. Point is, you don't have to keep any hooker data or speech at all to be liable. You don't have to host ads or reviews. You just have to make it easier for someone to fuck for pay.
Google searches? Even if they lead me to out-of-US fireproof sites, they greatly facilitate my good times! Maps? Makes it al lot easier to get to the hooker's apartment on time! Or maybe I take Uber/Lyft ...and so forth.
Glory days for lawyers who figure it out early.
I haven't looked yet, but I bet there's history from the early days of telephony over calling girls, and they beat it then. This new law is a different beast and they are going to have to beat it again.
Our only hope, as murine spectators of pachyderm combat, is that these companies beat it to death rather than special-casing their way out of it. Because the real evil of F/S is not its impact on hookers and johns (bad as that is), but the suppression of speech by attacking intermediaries. Just think what Trump can do to Bezos with a small tweak or two in this law. Anything powerful enough to seriously hamper prostitution is powerful enough to bring on a dictatorship.
Civilization may be hosed.
