The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking, chipping away at a bedrock legal shield for the technology industry.

Must be nice to never worry about money and living on daddy's money! Why they can't leave my life & body alone. #sexworkiswork #escort #GFE I am an adult and I can take decisions on my own! #mybodymychoice 🤬 #SESTA #FOSTA 🤬

United States of America.... land of the free?  
You can do it your own way.... if it's done just how I say!

promises was there would be no new regulation unless two regulations were eliminated.  So which two regulations were eliminated.  They have no fucking right interfering in our lives but like the war on drugs they are using sex trafficking as a way on putting pressure on civil rights and taking away our liberties.  Yet the righties on here all support Trump and the government taking away our freedom.  No point in writing your representative to protest this law because they will not listen or respond.    

I had little problem finding escorts before the World Wide Web. It’s no surprise that this overwhelmingly passed, the government has been after BP for a long time now. Politicians, regardless of party lines will not publicly support prostitution, ESPECIALLY in the mists of the #metoo movement right now.  Everyone is hyper focused on how women are being treated right now.  

Will this law affect this site even though it has nothing to do with trafficking? Or will reviews just have to stop being explicit and provider ads change terminology? Or will it actually end up shutting TER down?

Nope it won't ter is in the netherlands and not subject to U.S. law

Don't be so sure. The site is hosted outside the US, but most of users are in the US and are subject to US based rules, regs, and laws.  
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With net neutrality regs trashed last month, ISP's and other providers can now selectively block content from their users, or charge higher prices to access selected content whenever they want. .
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That means governments can put presure on the carriers to block or censor sites like TER.  Or they can incent/force the carriers to inform them of who is accessing sites that they deem as "supporting trafficking".  
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This is really about suprerssing the 1st admendment. And there is no NRA-like political body in the US to guard that amendment like the NRA "guards" the 2nd amendment, becuause no one ever imagiend it would be necessary.  
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Note: Leave your pro- and anti- NRA comments for some other thread, please. I'm not interested.

The first w in www is world. Congress can't control the whole world. Smart companies like TER already locate beyond the reach of our puritanical laws. Dumb ones that are subject to US jurisdiction are coveted by existing laws if they are truly involved in holding women (or men) against their will.

China, that bastion of freedom, democracy, free and open expression, recognition of individual rights, etc., suppresses access to many websites. Ooops. China is a Communist dictatorship. My bad.

Right now the current ratio for regulations is 22 pages of regulations being undone for every 1 page being created. You can hate Trump all you want for other issues, but he has actually over performed where it comes to eliminating regulations.

So now that BP has become a total wasteland of terrible information, does anyone have any other go to classified sites? I see that liv3esc0rtr3vi3ws still links here which is good, but it's definitely hard to find anything in less metropolitan area.

Same fucken SHIT! Different YEAR!!

This is very upsetting and what makes it even worse is how many celebrities are backing it.  

Ive had some luck with cityvibe. I do advertise on there, ter, eros and p411, and maybe im an anomoly but bp is still where the bulk of my traffic comes from.

Until they find a way to get their cut off your labor....
Then they'll be all for it!

I like city vibe. I place ads there and on slixa.

Please call your local reps and help fight this counterproductive bill! It's ironic that Paul Ryan states this bill will put an end to modern-day slavery.  If anything HB1865 or FOSTA will feed modern-day slavery since it is counterproductive and cuts many resources for sex workers & trafficking victims alike. More policing and criminalization has never been the answer in harm reduction.

So is this the end for TER? I've found it to be a useful resource for finding reliable, friendly escorts who definitely aren't sex trafficked and love what they do. I'd hate to see this place have to shut down because politicians believe websites like this one encourage trafficking.  

The statute says, in part:   "Whoever uses or operates a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce or attempts to do so with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both."  This raises the question of whether, under the statute, a TER reviewer can be construed as a user of a means of commerce  who intends to promote the prostitution of the individual who is reviewed (at least where the review is positive).  That would obviously be chilling.  I'm unclear about what things constitute a "means of commerce" under the statute, but I can see how, as a business, TER might be understood in these terms.  It would be helpful if some people with the legal expertise could weigh in on the various issues raised in this thread.

Times are changing again. We all need to change with it.  

Just because there is s law, doesn’t mean there is resources to go after everyone or it will be enforced. Escort agencies working out of a brick and mortar location, MPs etc are low hanging fruit and easier to set op a sting on. I highly doubt a single, mature, independent escort is going to be the focus.

That's why you need to be smart about your vote.This is a guy that had just recently had his lawyers paid a hooker a $130,000 to disappear.

Trump lawyers just a few weeks ago paid a hooker $130,000 to disappear - guess he is above the law.

Lets vote them out.

Agree ....elections coming up later this year too,we can start voting them out.

Agree with you ...they should be focusing on banning "war gun"  (assault weapons) and reduce mass murder. But then again most of them are owned by the NRA and  its monetary contribution anyway.

Totally agree ...I don't like them ,never have,never will.

Sorry ignorant question alert:

how to use the dark net... (TOR and others)

You do know that it was kamala harris (a democrat) who started this whole war on backpage right?

Words in communication needs to be more discreet so the Bible thumpers don’t start rattling there  sanctification wand or grable  Gravel in judgement .  
  If they could snatch a few  foreigners that bring  illegal drugs along with girls and boys sex working hostages , then I would be thrilled.  Let’s see what pop up.  

I wish the party would progress to give us a viable option for President.  Gary Johnson was not it.

You may be right about that.

As Ron Wyden says, now you will drive it  further underground.  Not that they care, but they need to watch Toni Mac on Ted Talks.

And there are 76 communists in the State Department.

From "The Verge", a respected tech website:  

Curious what everyone is thinking g about for a strategy? Stay off net only see girls you know and can communicate directly with?

From what I have gleaned from the comments and other what we know is here in a simple fashion; -

I don't like Sessions either, but if Sessions is your only reason to not EVER vote conservative again, wouldn't either Holder or Lynch be equal reasons to not EVER vote liberal again?

I agree.

There are already several providers who are banned from coming into the USA.  I won't name them, but if you're on Twitter you'll find their posts.  Sadly, (and I don't know how, they were stopped while trying to travel to the USA.  My next thought is if they are going after sites like backpage.com when will they go after TER?  It's the same only with a membership.  

The vote on the Senate Bill, SESTA (S 1693) is Monday- call your senators opposing this bill! Here's a handy link to a script

I have the pleasure of designing websites for our lovely providers. If this passes, I'm struggling to see a way to continue my business without potential problem. I'm sure we'll all get creative but I'm shaking in 'ma boots a little for the moment. Sure enjoy this extra income.

Liberal soccer moms have the most to lose. Their generally vapid personalities drive their husbands to seek company elsewhere.

Amen!   Agreed, agreed, agreed.

Paul Ryan's comment that this legislation will fight human trafficking is unbelievably naive. Trafficking has existed as long as civilization has, and will continue as long as humans walk the earth. All this will do is drive it further underground where it will be harder to find and root out. I'm all for cracking down on it, punishing those who practice it, and protecting those trapped by it, but making it even harder to locate is counter-productive.  

looks like time to move to Mexico Legal prostitution zones

They won’t be able to go after individual users on a site like TER. There are simply too many of them. It would be a losing proposition.

Form an unholy alliance against us.  The thing is, is the hypocrisy.  Many of the soccer moms are cheating,  the misanthropic ladies hate themselves and everyone, and the religious ultra conservatives think they speak for God.  Fuck them all!  I won't even include our so-called representatives in government...they have the audacity to tell us to do as I say, not as I do.  Lying sacks of shit are a major component in why the hobby thrives in DC.  Trump isn't to blame here...the system was beyond corrupt and dishonest long before he arrived on the scene.  

Yup, California and New York are solidly liberal.  In California democrats run against democrats.  Republicans can't get past the primaries.   Yet California hasn't legalized prostitution.  No liberal majority area has legalized prostitution.  

Wrong on a few counts. You mentioned NRA defending the 2nd Amendment, and lamented no organization doesnsame for the 1st.  I’ve left the link to an organization called American Civil Liberties Union.

EFF has several thoughtful, informed articles on the issue. Start here:

Trump signing the bill would be yugely hypocritical, since he hired Stormy Daniels for sex services.
But we know him, that puppet idiot will sign anything put in front of him.
He's too chickenshit to veto anything.

97-2. How can you expect Trump to veto that Bill?

For the record, every single Democrat in the Senate save one voted FOR this, and just as many (one) Republicans voted against this bill as did Democrats, but you choose to blame only Trump. Let me repeat my question, just how fucking stupid are you anyhow?

Are you going to feel hypocritical voting for Kamala Harris, the prime backer of this bill, when she runs against Trump?  The bill passed the Senate 97-2. There’s not a politician in history who would veto such an overwhelmingly popular piece of legislation.

I totally agree with everything you said.

It doesn’t matter where it’s hosted.  Mueller just indicted Russian hackers, and aggressive prosecutors can do the same to overseas web companies.  Look at the pending extradition of the guy who founded Torrent.

I had to look up the junior Democratic Senator from California.  I like her tits. I'd force fuck her face and support her endeavor.

Kamala Harris is very sexy, but her sister Maya is gorgeous too!

I think providers or clients concerned about being targeted more easily by LE through this are probably misplacing their concerns. This makes it easier for the government to go after websites - that's where the action will be. So the websites will be more proactive in trying to take down information sharing that is advertising or seems like advertising. It's going to be about equally as difficult as it was before to go after individual providers. As far as advertisements or websites or Twitter accounts, the worst I see basically anyone facing is having it simply taken down. Providers, I don't think you're any more likely to get arrested.