THE FOSTA-SESTA FALLOUT.

The Free Speech Coalition has already challenged AVS legislation in multiple states on these grounds; while its suit in Utah was dismissed, a federal judge in Texas blocked the state's law, explaining that it "will allow the government to peer into the most intimate and personal aspects of people's lives." FEATURES In april of 2018, when donald trump signed the allow states and victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, sex workers and civil liberties groups sounded the alarm. But from the beginning, trafficking survivors themselves warned that FOSTA-SESTA would endanger voluntary sex workers and restrict free expression on the Internet. Both FOSTA-SESTA and age-verification bills are part of what Morgan describes in her law review article as "a legacy of attempts by activists and lawmakers to enact laws with seemingly feminist or otherwise protective aims" that ultimately backfire by harming those with the least amount of power. [Extracted from the article]