The measure will "make it harder, not easier, to root out and prosecute sex traffickers," said Sen. Ron Wyden, one of only two senators to vote no on FOSTA.
Reason editors dispute presidential notion that "trade wars are good, and easy to win," and also argue over the Oscars.
Device makers would be required to block porn, prostitution hubs, and all content that fails "current standards of decency."
Disney allegedly lobbied against the bill behind the scenes.
The bill makes "promoting prostitution" a federal crime, holds websites legally liable for user-posted content, and lets states retroactively prosecute offenders.
In a series of protests, strip club workers and their allies are pushing back against abusive policing.
Minneapolis is being transformed into a police state.
They also arrested her younger friend for prostitution.
Harris only cares about other women's rights when those rights don't conflict with her career ambitions.
It isn't just parents. Cops, schools, reporters, bureaucrats and busybodies got in on the action this year.
We rounded up the year's best writing, reporting, and research on erotic industries, those who work in them, and how they're getting screwed by U.S. authorities and laws.
The bill would gut Section 230 and make sex advertising a federal crime.
A related measure would open digital platforms to liability for past crimes committed by users.
The city council is considering a mammoth package of new rules that threaten Tampa bathhouses and those who visit them.
Weinstein Company staff aided in the trafficking by arranging auditions for young female actors "using the code FOH"-for "Friend of Harvey"-the suit states.
John Stossel confronts a prostitute, a pimp and an anti-prostitution crusader.
As America deals with terrorist attacks and mass shootings, DHS and the FBI are busy enforcing misdemeanor vice laws.
Massage-parlor panic is crushing small businesses, civil liberties, and people's lives. Here are eight examples from October.
FISA reauthorization would majorly expand use of warrantless digital surveillance data against Americans.
Hear from the real victims of this cruel FBI charade.
Judge says Bay Area cops accused of sex crimes might not have known that Oakland teenager "Celeste Guap" was underage.
"We don't have enough space for them," said sheriff.
It could happen to you, whatever "it" is.
The exceptions in 2016 were Minnesota and Texas, according to newly released FBI data.
Congress moves to grant Trump administration vast new policing powers, because "sex trafficking."
There was no trafficking victim here-just a couple attempting private sexual activity with another consenting adult. But Maryland cops don't care.
The state will continue to pursue money-laundering charges against Carl Ferrer, Michael Lacey, and James Larkin.
Hope Zeferjohn's role was limited to chatting with the "victim"-who was never actually trafficked-on Facebook.
Like all things 2017, an old urban legend takes an even more ridiculous turn.
A new paper in the Wake Forest Law Review explores "the virtues of unvirtuous spaces" when it comes to stopping sexual exploitation.
The "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" would not stop sexual exploitation. But it could blow up the legal framework that supports the internet as we know it.
AG Josh Hawley's "new evidence" against the U.S. company is actions carried out by foreign contractors for foreign websites.
What Korean sex workers "were doing could not be called consensual because they were being paid," Val Richey tells The Seattle Times.
Post says Backpage hired a contractor that catfished on foreign competitors' sites.
Making matters worse, the report concludes, was "the tone at the top."
FAA reauthorization bill would require airline ticket-counter and gate agents to be trained on reporting "potential human trafficking victims."
Examining McCain's philanthropic past reveals a long history of personal abuse of nonprofit resources, shady connections, and shoddy work.
From pill theft to cozying up to authoritarians, Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador on human rights has a long history of abusing the system.
Even the police can't control human-trafficking hysteria anymore, and it could backfire for them.
A batch of frightening new bills take aim at all sorts of civil liberties under the guise of stopping sexual exploitation.
These are the tools of pornographers, "sextortionists," and human traffickers, Sessions told a police conference this week.
Naturally, they're portraying it as a success.
New laws are under debate, but the practice is more common than you think.
Former Oakland cop Brian Bunton is one of dozens of area police officers who've been implicated in the sexual exploitation of "Celeste Guap."
That's 332 times as many sex workers arrested in the stings as people indicted on federal charges involving a minor.
Maria Navarete says police told her "shut up, you have no rights" as they handcuffed and pinned down her and her children.
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