"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd."
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Does everyone remember that bit from Scrubs about removing all porn from the internet?
We’re about to find out if it’s true.
”I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called ’Bring back the porn!’ ” - Dr Cox
My question is what defines pornography? Will museums have to cloak statues of naked people? Remove a renaissance era painting because of boobs? How about a movie that has tasteful nudity? Or just ads for Victoria Secret?
Anything they disapprove of.
As is always the case with fascists, the laws will apply to the people they don't like and be ignored for the people they do like. So long as Victoria's Secret's CEO continues paying the bribes, it's not porn.
Christians in the late Roman empire went about destroying a lot of old statues and breaking off the genitalia on them. The Roman's weren't shy about giving nude male statues manly bits down there.
It didn't end with them either. During the Victorian era many European archeologists had no issue breaking the junk off artifacts they found.
The definition of pornography isn’t the issue here as that has a long standing and pretty clear definition. The issue would be the wording of the bill as from the small bit I can see before the paywall block, it isn’t a ban on pornography but a vague ban on obscene content. Who gets to decide what is “obscene content” and how that is determined is the problem as it would be ripe for abuse by whichever party is in power. The government of the day could say that opposing political opinions are “obscene” and therefore banned.
John Ashcroft notoriously had the bare-breasted statue of Justice covered up in 2002 (uncovered in 2005) because there were so many public TV appearances at the Justice Department during the worst part of the post-9/11 changes.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-29-mn-25302-story.html
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USA has the biggest porn industry in the world, doesn’t it?
100%. Porn is what pushed the development of e-commerce and credit card payments online.
What they WILL get is eID laws as a result, and the total lack of privacy online.
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Soon that will be "had"
Mind you, this will end with a lot of porn disappearing from the Internet because most of it is on US servers
Someone should start downloading all of it and have some federated repository available
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Okay so previously I would’ve thought this is performative with no chance of it passing. However states have already passed laws that require proving ID to sites like pornhub before you can access and I am SHOCKED that they did it.
People in these areas are either using VPN, verifying an account with pornhub, or just not using pornhub. All 3 of which would be absolutely surprises to me but it’s gotta be one of them, right?
The group behind the state ID laws want to ban it nationally and have openly said those laws are stepping stones.
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Everyone except for the trump family of pornographers.
"Both sides are the same" is a queerphobic thing to say.
Those hexbears would be very upset if they could read.
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“Party of freedom”, everyone.
freedom to invade your home without a warrant on suspicion for harboring an undesirable.
freedom to live in crushing debt and be forced to work like a dog your whole life.
freedom to buy, freedom to sell.
edit - guess that's what you get when you elect Biff... twice
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Someone start a religion where porn is the sacrament. Handed down by God himself and shit. Maybe on golden plates.
I feel like The Satanic Temple would be willing to do this.
They did something similar with abortion rights, but I don't think they have gained any legal traction with that argument. (That could also be because they're waiting for a member who has standing to bring a case.)
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This is something I think we can finally agree upon across political divides as a terrible fascist go fuck yourself idea.
The porn industry is going to do the same to the GOP that they did to Betamax
Thank god, I can still jerk it to women's feet.