From Reuters:

With some 2,300 state prosecutors now able to build cases to test the new law, tech companies would feel a “real danger”, said Lars Trautman, a former county prosecutor and criminal justice expert at the R Street Institute, a think tank.

“You have to worry about each and every individual district attorney,” he said.

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Prosecutors will face formidable hurdles meeting the stringent legal standard of proof needed to put website owners behind bars – that they had prior intent and knowingly facilitated sex trafficking, said the analyst Trautman.

“That knowledge element is incredibly hard to prove in the context of a website,” he said, adding that websites could, perversely, now decide to spend less time moderating their content so as to claim ignorance about trafficking posts.

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