these groups from ohio, 50 attorneys general from across the united states, 50, including ohio's mike dewine, our attorney general, sent a letter to congress asking for the communications decency act to be changed to allow state and local authorities to hold backpage and other websites that knowingly facilitate sex trafficking accountable. the letter stated in part it is both ironic and tragic that the communications decency act which is intended to protect children from indecent material on the internet is now used as a shield by those who profit from process constitution and crimes against children. they're right. originally the act was put in place to try to shield young people from pornography. so what these attorneys general are calling for and what this stop enabling sex trafficking act will do is to allow us to go after these websites. this bill will allow victims to get justice, as i said, and will do so in a way that protects internet companies that are doing the right thing. notably, we preserve the communications decency act's good samaritan provision, which protects those good ac