As per usual, a well thought out and reasoned response Mistress Ayn. I agree that Eros will actually be the first site that the DOJ goes after, since Backpage is gone and Eros was already in their cross-hairs (and has been able to resist so far). My expectation is that they will seize the .com address and set up internet filters similar to those they put in place for online betting sites.

However, in my opinion, the key provisions aren't what the DOJ does. It is the self-censorship that is required by the online resources themselves in order to avoid lawsuits. A strategy that was successfuly deployed to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan is now being flipped around by a combination of the right wing and feminists (who feel that sex work / porn is patriarchal and denigrating to women) and being pointed at us.

So, whereas TER or Eros may fight it because to eliminate it kills their business model... Social Media just has a robust subculture of it rather than it being their business model. IMO, they only have allowed it because to not do so would open up a serious wedge to their competition. If no one is allowed then the social media companies are totally on board with eliminating all of it, just to appease the squeaky wheels who hate representation of sex in any public forum.