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line-height:19px; margin:0 0 4px 0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;word-break:break-word;">House passes online sex trafficking bill</h2> <div class="card-richinfo-primary" style="font-size:11px;line-height:15px;color:#999;">By Harper Neidig</div> <div class="card-description" style="font-size:11px;line-height:15px;color:#999;word-break:break-word;">The House on Tuesday passed an online sex trafficking bill in a broad, bipartisan vote that many in the tech ind...</div> </td> <td style="text-align:right;padding:16px 12px 16px 0;"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </a></div><div><br></div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Graphik Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59273" dir="ltr"><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59298">"The Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), introduced by Rep. <span data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59299"><a data-nid="187978" href="http://thehill.com/people/ann-wagner" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; position: relative;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59300">Ann Wagner</a></span> (R-Mo.), was approved in a 388-25 vote, earning majorities in both parties. It will make it easier for websites to be targeted with legal action for enabling sex trafficking.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59301">"FOSTA will produce more prosecutions of bad actor websites, more convictions, and put more predators behind bars," Wagner said in a statement. "It will give victims a pathway to justice and provide a meaningful criminal deterrent, so that fewer businesses will ever enter the sex trade, and fewer victims will ever be sold."</div></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302" dir="ltr"> <span style="color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59371">But the legislation has also worried internet companies and advocacy groups over what it might mean for free speech online. The bill would cut into the legal immunity that internet platforms enjoy under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields websites from legal liability for content posted by third-parties.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59372">If it became law, the sex trafficking legislation would be the first major policy blow in the growing movement among lawmakers to challenge tech giants.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59372">The main concern for groups like Engine, a trade association for internet startups, is that the bill will hamper innovation by forcing smaller web companies to devote too many resources to monitoring content for which they should not be held liable. They also worry that the measure will not do enough to actually crack down on online sex trafficking......"<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59523"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); line-height: 1.4;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59372"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302" dir="ltr"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59457">Hopefully to be conversation for the Kenyan House that in some quarters still courts FGM.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302" dir="ltr"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59628">CSOs have a tall order in this area that greatly affects children online.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302" dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302"><font size="5">Be blessed.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519810293180_59302"><font size="5">Regards/Wangari</font></div><div class="signature">---<br><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);">Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - </span><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);">"Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".</span></font><br></div></div></body></html>