Stop Sesta/Fosta (Patreon)

Published:

2018-12-10 19:52:30

Imported:

2020-07

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We try to be sparing about our political activism posts here, but as recently proved by both Facebook and Tumblr, our livelihoods are at stake thanks to these idiotic acts of the US Congress. We don't like to inject political chicanery onto our posts because nobody comes to play a porn game to be reminded of how shitty reality can be, but in this case, as in previous ones, our hand is forced by the threat to our livelihood and the precedent this establishes. It's unlikely that Patreon will immediately follow suit with the other companies, especially since they've moved to Britain, but the UK is eyeing it's own laws of this nature and thus we really need help ending this before it gets any farther.

~Judge Heath

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Stop SESTA/FOSTA

Online platforms are the modern town square. We all benefit from the diversity of voices and perspectives online, and that's largely thanks to the safe harbor protections in Section 230. Shifting more liability to Internet platforms for their users' speech will inevitably lead to those platforms more tightly monitoring and restricting users' activities.