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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.

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[-] [email protected] 102 points 3 weeks ago

This man's search history and hard drive are littered with some vile, vile things I'd bet.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago

More likely his version of porn is live and forced.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

And somehow I didn't think that could have gotten darker...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

During a holocaust?

[-] [email protected] 84 points 3 weeks ago

Is topless modelling considered soft porn?

Asking for a president’s wife.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

She had an Einstein visa, so the nude pictures count as art. Any accompanying prostitution would be considered performance art.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

HitlerPig wants more of the prostitution part, but he can't afford it.

[-] [email protected] 72 points 3 weeks ago

I despise gambling, but I have $5 that says he's going to be charged with child sex offenses before too long

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Can we get this on major betting sites? This is easy money some right wing idiot will give 3:1 on

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

I would not bet against that.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

The gamble would have to be the when not if.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago

Just a reminder, these people consider trans people existing pornography

[-] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

As a reminder look up the top porn search for each red state…

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

"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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Most not all red state top porn searches are either black, trans, and yes incest…

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

It hurts republicans far more than democrats

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

That’s true for all forms of literacy.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

you know by their definition of obscene the a huge portion of the bible will be thrown out.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

should, but I've long given up any expectations of consistency or critical thinking from that bunch.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Bold of you to assume they actually read the Bible

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

This guy doesn't care what he bible says, he prays to the Book Of Mor(m)on

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

His face is fucking obscene. It should be banned nationwide.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

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)?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Like a grindr profile seeking “legal” teens?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The porn lobby is going to fuck this guy over.

Edit: they may even make some art out of it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

The "GOP senator pegged by pink furries while his tradwife is being handled by caring black gentlemen" new trend?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The classic rethorical strategy of drawing your opponent as pregnant.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

If there is one single thing that will doom this government, it is trying to ban porn.

Weird, but true.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

You’re not wrong. It’s how VHS won against Betamax.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Whole this is utterly stupid and theocratic as fuck, can I just say that picture that goes to this article just screams "and I'm exaggerating".

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

This reminds me of that Willy Shakespeare quote (paraphrased)..."Me thinks he protesteth too much!".

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

How to lose any future election with one simple trick.

side note: VPN STOCKS GOING UP!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Better fire up some torrents to get through these trying times

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