I disagree with the bill of course but there's value in virtue signaling. It's important to take public positions or symbolic gestures for what you think is morally right. The act can persuade others and motivate them to action. Why's that wrong?
The Senate just passed a bill that is idiotic, harmful, and unconstitutional. Why? A classic virtue-signaling moral panic about human sexuality.https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/976552978239967233 …
DOJ: #FOSTA makes it harder to prosecute sex traffickers
Sex workers: it makes us more likely to become victims
Lawyers: unconstitutional!
Tech: this will kill the open internet
Senators: we're passing this baby by a bipartisan consensus of 97-2! 
https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/21/senate-passes-fosta-sex-trafficking-bill …
https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/21/senate-passes-fosta-sex-trafficking-bill …
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A ban on advertising anything, including sex work, violates the First Amendment. And it's none of the government's business to virtue signal. Its job is to govern.
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The vote was 97-2. The mainstream loonies are just as responsible for this one.
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