for disappearing, except for VPN here in the States and other such corrupt countries worldwide.  I've saved a ton of money as I ran for the hills when Obama and his misguided attempt to equate human trafficking with good old man looking for a good time with a bird half his age!  Now, where and with whom do I spend a bit of it ....

Obama had nothing to do with it. That said, it's fairly obvious that IF he'd been President when FOSTA/SESTA was passed he'd have signed it too.
Maybe next time read the news.

OK, actually you sound even dumber because at least Trump was the guy who was POTUS at the time and the guy who actually signed it into law.

The LA in LAgroove stood for  Louisiana, given your MAGA anti-Bama rhetoric. Then I realized it stood for Los Angeles. You are obviously far, far away from home. You can take the boy out of the swamps, but not the swamps out of the boy. The alligators called. They want their retard back.

Lagroove. Damn you for being right and making me agree with you. Let's hope this wont continue.

FOSTA SESTA was an invention of the Republican Party.  Whats weird about it is that it was supposedly done to curry favor with the evangelicals, but it was introduced and largely written by senator Rob Portman (R) Ohio.  Portman was one of the first GOP senators who came out in favor of same sex marriage.  Go figure.

The "FOSTA" part of "FOSTA/SESTA" was written in the HOUSE. You know, the DEMOCRATIC held HOUSE.

Sorry Jack.  My source is a little more reliable than your “jack book”.  FOSTA was written and sponsored by a GOP congresswoman, Ann Wagner. As to who voted for it, this thing was spun as a vote against human sex trafficking, so nobody wanted to vote against it, which could be seen as voting for sex trafficking.  It was passed when there was a GOP majority in the House, so there’s that little fact that should be noted.

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It wasn't a "Republican invention" at all as you initially stated, as BOTH sides tripped over each other to write, sponsor AND vote for it in a wildly bi-partisan fashion.

There's really only one party that consistently supports individual liberty, including the decriminalization of sex work ... the Libertarians, of course.

You are wrong, be a man and admit it.  Read the legislative history or don't.  It was in fact created by the Republicans to keep the evangelicals happy and to subtly further the GOP agenda to end net neutrality.  Of course it was voted for bilaterally because who would vote for sex trafficking?   That part of the plan actually backfired badly for the GOP because they lost their intended talking point going into the 2018 election of not being able to say the democrats voted for sex trafficking.    The fact that it came out of the GOP is really not that relevant is it?  

The fact is you are both wrong but you both are essentially saying the same thing and whistling past each other in the process. JD is wrong in that it was passed in a Republican held house but you are being disingenuous at best to say the Republicans "invented" Sesta-Fosta. Each side is equally at fault for this horrible law that Trump signed off on. Sadly, progressives would have wrote the same/similar bill and couldn't wait to go down the same rabbit hole as the Republicans. Richard Blumenthal (Democrat from CT) co-sponsored the Senate version. No heroes here JTC. Both sides were spineless.
I would love to lay the blame of this on Republicans but it was a joint effort and your original post in this thread clearly gave the impression you were only blaming the Republicans. I will blame them for many things (lack of action on climate, tax relief for billionaires, not enough funding for schools, etc) but Sesta-Fosta is not one of them.

for Republicans.  Most of us have air conditioning in our cars, homes and offices, as do most of the Democratic elites.  Its only an issue for the homeless.  Eliminate homelessness, and you solve the climate issue.  Problem solved.  

FOSTA SESTA is a horrible law brought by the GOP from the more nefarious motive of piercing a hole in the Communications Decency Act that protected websites such as TER from liability for user created content that promoted sex trafficking.  It allowed states to initiate criminal proceedings in an industry that heretofore had been exclusively in Federal Jurisdiction.  This was an essential part of a larger strategy to deregulate and end net neutrality.  Why end net neutrality?  To make more money by allowing selective bandwidth throttling and some forms of censorship for which a user would have to pay extra to avoid.  This is well documented and you can do your own research.