as we‘ve tried to explain, SESTA doesn‘t just impact Backpage, Facebook and Google. Indeed, Facebook and Google are uniquely positioned to handle the burdens (bogus takedowns, trollish threats, baseless litigation) enabled by SESTA. We‘ve already shown how SESTA leaves small sites like our own at tremendous risk (and we‘re still waiting for anyone — but especially the bill‘s authors — to explain how we avoid that risk), but lots and lots of other sites will be impacted as well.

Take Wikipedia for example. The Wikimedia Foundation has published an excellent article describing how Wikipedia only exists because of CDA 230 and how it creates the space for a site driven entirely by its userbase to exist.