Critics are getting their chance to attack an anti-online sex trafficking law as unconstitutional in a courtroom showdown that foreshadows a coming debate in Congress over website liability.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is slated to hear arguments Sept. 20 in a dispute over the validity of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. The law, known as FOSTA, holds websites liable, with penalties of fines, imprisonment or both, for intentionally promoting prostitution and knowingly facilitating sex trafficking.
FOSTA was the first law to to amend Section 230 of the ...
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