@everyone
This bill changes section 230 of the CDA, the law that protects website owners from liability for what their users post, to carve out an exception for instances of human trafficking. Site owners can be held liable and subject to a criminal fine or imprisonment for not more than 20 years.
What this means in practice is that all it would take for a website to be shut down and its owner arrested is a false flag operation of spooks engaging in human trafficking. All US sites would become forced to impose extremely heavy-handed moderation and censorship or shut down entirely, 4chan and 8chan included.
This bill has strong bipartisan support and will likely pass unless heavy resistance can be organized quickly and on a large scale.
Voting on the House Floor is scheduled for THIS TUESDAY. Start spreading this information on as many websites as you can before it's too late. If you know anyone with a large audience try and get them to spread the word. If this bill becomes law then it's GAME OVER for free speech on the internet.
I need all of you to:
1. Spread this information to AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE AS FAST AS YOU CAN, BY TUESDAY.
2. Visit https://act.eff.org/action/stop-fosta ASAP and call your representatives, saying "Iām calling about FOSTA, House Bill 1865. Please oppose it and any other bill that weakens the important protections for online freedom of speech in Section 230.".
This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for keeping internet free speech alive.
