Senate Passes Bill That Will Hurt the Internet and Sex Workers

by Katie Herzog Getty Images
On Wednesday, the Senate passed an "anti-sex trafficking" bill that has far wider consequences that protecting victims of sex trafficking—and not all of them good.The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, or SESTA, as well as the House version of the bill (the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA), amends Section 230 to the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230), meaning that for the first time in the history of the internet, websit