Last year, the rightwing think-tank the Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025, which laid out much of the policy blueprint for the current Trump administration. One of the project’s espoused goals was to permanently criminalize all pornography. Now, a Republican senator with kind words for Trump has introduced a bill that would do just that.
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which would effectively criminalize all pornography nationwide by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. For years, “obscenity” has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech that remains unprotected by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass virtually all visual representations of sex.
I’m not personally concerned about them banning actual porn, I’m more concerned about the part of the plan where they’re going to classify LGBT media as porn and ban it.
A lot of great content will either be pulled from streaming or heavily edited. Agatha All Along, one of the best Marvel shows, will be on the chopping block. And so will innocent preschool shows like Young Jedi Adventures because it features lesbian parents.
Anyone want to put a wager on how long before Mike Lee is discovered with some really kinky and/or illegal media on his personal device(s)?
Like a grindr profile seeking “legal” teens?
Better fire up some torrents to get through these trying times
As a reminder look up the top porn search for each red state…
“Step…”? “Schoolgirl”? “Interracial”? “Incest”? “Cuckold”? Something about police?
Or what?
I know it’s the reserve hole for Russia, must be all the criminal culture.
Most not all red state top porn searches are either black, trans, and yes incest…
This reminds me of that Willy Shakespeare quote (paraphrased)…“Me thinks he protesteth too much!”.
Just a reminder, these people consider trans people existing pornography
The porn lobby is going to fuck this guy over.
Edit: they may even make some art out of it.
The “GOP senator pegged by pink furries while his tradwife is being handled by caring black gentlemen” new trend?
The classic rethorical strategy of drawing your opponent as pregnant.
If there is one single thing that will doom this government, it is trying to ban porn.
Weird, but true.
You’re not wrong. It’s how VHS won against Betamax.
Is topless modelling considered soft porn?
Asking for a president’s wife.
She had an Einstein visa, so the nude pictures count as art. Any accompanying prostitution would be considered performance art.
HitlerPig wants more of the prostitution part, but he can’t afford it.
How to lose any future election with one simple trick.
side note: VPN STOCKS GOING UP!
This man’s search history and hard drive are littered with some vile, vile things I’d bet.
More likely his version of porn is live and forced.
Well, it starts live…
And somehow I didn’t think that could have gotten darker…
The last RNC crashed the Grindr servers near Milwaukee. No joke.
https://headlineusa.com/republicans-point-fingers-after-gay-hookup-site-grindr-crashes-at-rnc/
During a holocaust?
Nah, the authoritarian types are usually bottoms. It’s transactional, and consensual.
Oh, it probably involves anonymous check-ins to hotel rooms, involving attractive young men and methamphetamine.
I despise gambling, but I have $5 that says he’s going to be charged with child sex offenses before too long
Can we get this on major betting sites? This is easy money some right wing idiot will give 3:1 on
I would not bet against that.
The gamble would have to be the when not if.
Most of what they do is in service to white supremacy, including this.
- Abortion restrictions: more white babies
- Pornography restrictions: more white babies
- Immigration restrictions: fewer brown babies
Make America Great Again literally just means “restoring” the “supremacy” of the white race and culture over all others.
I don’t see how the first two would increase the number of white babies proportionally to the rest of the babies being born. As far as I’m aware, the states with abortion restrictions have higher % black populations than the other states, for instance.
Sadly put them in jail, deport, provide inferior medical aid by capitalism means is the traditional answer.
Edit for drive-by down voters: I’m saying this is what they believe, not that it’s true or I believe it. I mean, all I’m talking about is the “Great Replacement” theory that people like Stephen Miller fully adhere to.
It’s pretty simple: the white population is losing ground relative to non-white populations. Yes, other populations will increase, but there’s a practical ceiling. They likely believe that the white population gains will more than offset any gains by other ethnicities.
For black populations specifically, I’d have to do some simple analysis on this data, but it doesn’t look particularly disproportionate in absolute numbers.
But really, I don’t believe the black population is the principal target. See the graph. Consider the immigration policy.
I feel like your answer is just “they believe this will work.”
I mean, obviously. I’m not saying I believe it or that it’s viable.
most populations around the world are slowing in growth, plateauing, or declining. Seems as people become wealthier, and more educated, very young people begin having less/no kids, for the most part, and this lack of teen births is what is largely being lost when we see these declines.
Yeah, when people have educations they know the planet is fucked. Lmao at thinking it’s “money and education” that means less kids. It’s happening because the world is bad and the earth is fucked. Making it more complicated is hilarious
I’ve heard that you have a huge demographic of black christians there, so abortion restrictions would also mean more black babies. Same for pornography.
Immigration restrictions - a lot of people from “white” countries were immigrating too, so not sure.
I don’t think it’s that. It’s making more bullshit laws, because a law really puts pressure only at those not in power. Creating plenty of tooling to jail and suppress opponents.
And also some people might genuinely think porn is harmful and they’re sorta right, if you have proper sexual education and available contraception, porn is harmful and it’s better to reduce age of consent (so that teenagers doing teenage things wouldn’t fear getting jailed) and limit porn (it affects one’s brain similarly to other addictions). A bit like in Iceland maybe?
Dunno what “white culture” is, seems to be some American delusion. From here it seems you have in general the same culture, whatever the skin color. Even ebony slang, IIRC, is similar to how rural white people speak in some states south. I may be wrong, haven’t made the Columbus excursion yet.
Perhaps you missed the part where Trump explicitly encouraged immigrants of European descent to come to the US and made expedited arrangements for white Afrikaner “refugees” recently.
Or in his first term during the Unite the Right rally, when racists marched in Charlottesville and chanted “You will not replace us,” meaning Jews and non-white minorities, and Trump responded by saying there were “very fine people on both sides.”
I think you’d have a pretty steep uphill argument to say that this administration is not a white supremacist (and misogynist) movement at its core.
Again, I don’t believe this myself, but what they mean by “white culture” or “European Anglo-Saxon values” or whatever is simply a homogenous culture centered around white supremacy.
Ah. I see. I have some remnants of irrational sympathy to Boers after reading Boussenard’s book for stupid boys in my childhood.
But yep, encouraging Afrikaners to come somewhere in bunches seems to be a red flag.
I think you’d have a pretty steep uphill argument to say that this administration is not a white supremacist (and misogynist) movement at its core.
Maybe you are right, it’s just hard to believe something to be that simple, all other cases I’ve seen have a saner core, just evil.
Well, there are PLENTY of porn sites that are not based in the US, as well as PLENTY of VPN providers that are euro based. Good luck with all of that. Those that want to watch porn, will just become slightly more tech literate.
It hurts republicans far more than democrats
That’s true for all forms of literacy.
Yeah but doubly so for tech literacy
you know by their definition of obscene the a huge portion of the bible will be thrown out.
This guy doesn’t care what he bible says, he prays to the Book Of Mor(m)on
should, but I’ve long given up any expectations of consistency or critical thinking from that bunch.
Bold of you to assume they actually read the Bible
