From experience as in-house counsel at MySpace a dozen years ago, then-AG Blumenthal was leader of the bulldog pack. The issue of the day was keeping sexual predators from using online social networks, of which ours was the largest. Never mind that we were adding 300,000 new registered users *per day*; we were expected to somehow magically (1) screen out registered sex offenders, when the only identifiers we had for new users were screen name and email address; and (2) keep children under 13 from lying about their birthdates to circumvent COPPA.

It seems like the lesser evil than letting 50 state’s legislatures run roughshod over the CDA. Unfortunately, many of these Senators are former state attorneys, so calling their peers’ motivations and qualifications into question is counterproductive. Just like when most of them exited stage left after they got in their sound bites and it was time for the anti-SESTA witnesses to speak.

Although there are some good reasons to fear how the state AGs might misuse this power, in general this approach seems like a more sensible result than most of SESTA