Sentimos informarte que en los EEUU la página web ha tenido que ser cerrada. El Congreso estadounidense ha aprobado una ley para combatir el tráfico sexual en línea (Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act o SESTA, también conocida como Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act o FOSTA). Conforme a la  SESTA / FOSTA, el gobierno estadounidense puede someter los sitios web y a las personas que los operan al procesamiento penal por causa de los posts publicados por sus usuarios.

Pedimos disculpa por las molestias, pero EGE no tiene otra opción mientras la ley esté en vigor. ¡Esperamos verle pronto! Si tiene cualquier tipo de pregunta, por favor, póngase en contacto con nosotros vía [email protected] y nosotros haremos todo para responderle.

El texto de la ley y las penas para sitios web operados en todo el mundo:

Under 18 U.S.C. § 2421A(a), “Whoever, using a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer service (as such term is defined in section 230(f) [of] the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f))), or conspires or attempts to do so, with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.

Subsection (b) provides, “Whoever, using a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer service (as such term is defined in section 230(f) [of] the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f))), or conspires or attempts to do so, with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person and—(1) promotes or facilitates the prostitution of 5 or more persons; or (2) acts in reckless disregard of the fact that such conduct contributed to sex trafficking, in violation of 1591(a), shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 25 years, or both.

The phrase “in commerce” refers to the “channels” and the “instrumentalities” of interstate or foreign commerce. United States v. Baston, 818 F.3d 651, 664 (11th Cir. 2016). The phrase “affecting commerce” is a term of art that “ordinarily signal[s] the broadest permissible exercise of Congress’ Commerce Clause power.” Citizens Bank v. Alafabco, Inc., 539 U.S. 52, 56 (2003). Advertising services on the Internet is sufficient to establish conduct “in commerce.” See Baston, 818 F.3d at 664. Similarly, because your conduct is in commerce, it necessarily affects commerce as well. See id. at 665. Because websites are operating with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person in the United States by inclusion of prostitutes located in the United States, all such a websites are in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2421A.