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I did not know about that bill...stuffs gonna get really whack with underground stuff, like a porn prohibition, why are we still going further and further back in time. Also I'm so pissed about tumblr I've been on that piece of shit for 10 years, despite all it's nonsense it was still like a final frontier.

Yea, Verizon/Yahoo!, the cp scandal, and app store removal was part of what pushed this along. While SESTA/FOSTA is, at its core, centered around stopping sex-trafficking,  it's not only hurting sex-workers, but puts a lot of internet content in jeopardy. While porn on every SNS service won't suddenly fizzle out in January, more sites will continue to implement sweeping changes, like Tumblr's, to avoid liability.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/05/fosta-sesta-is-now-law-where-does-that-leave-the-internet/

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/13/17172762/fosta-sesta-backpage-230-internet-freedom

I'm curious to see how this plays out in the long-run. I wasn't expecting things to go down this fast, so Tumblr will probably stick w/ the changes : /. 

It's a US bill, which affects people from everywhere . Supposedly passed with good intentions, but it's hurting more people than it is saving them. 

Firstly, sex workers who use Twitter, tumblr and Facebook to promote their work. This includes camgirls, escorts and Dommes. Twitter is quietly putting their account on mute so their visibility on the website is close to 0. This was no surprise as people have been suspecting twitter of using "shadowbanning" for a while, but this is different and specifically targets certain people and none of the methods which worked on undoing shadowbanning work on this new censorship method. Facebook deletes any pages or personal profiles suspected of sex work, Instagram deletes any women posting erotic content  and yet I can easily find porn posted by third parties on their platform, now tumblr. Even Craigslist is sweeping off ads. Yes, Craigslist. 

This bill is hurting women who depend on social media for their livelihood. It's driving them off the Internet, one of the few places they can do business safely. 

If anything I'm just glad I made more people aware of it.