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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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[–] ghostlychonk@lemm.ee 101 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Forester@pawb.social 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

More likely his version of porn is live and forced.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

During a holocaust?

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Nah, the authoritarian types are usually bottoms. It's transactional, and consensual.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Oh, it probably involves anonymous check-ins to hotel rooms, involving attractive young men and methamphetamine.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is topless modelling considered soft porn?

Asking for a president’s wife.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

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

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would not bet against that.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

The gamble would have to be the when not if.

[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 day ago

Just a reminder, these people consider trans people existing pornography

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It hurts republicans far more than democrats

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s true for all forms of literacy.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah but doubly so for tech literacy

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As long as prosecution for politicians caught in motel rooms with twinks and meth applies to them, also.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

As much of horndog as Gaetz was, I have no problem believing he had some twinks, too.

Nothing wrong with that sexually, but his constituents wouldn't like it...

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah I'm sure they'll get right on that

[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 10 points 1 day ago

Bold of you to assume they actually read the Bible

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Perhaps you missed the news 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.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The porn lobby is going to fuck this guy over.

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

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

The classic rethorical strategy of drawing your opponent as pregnant.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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)?

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Like a grindr profile seeking “legal” teens?

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

Weird, but true.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

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

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".

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

How to lose any future election with one simple trick.

side note: VPN STOCKS GOING UP!

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Better fire up some torrents to get through these trying times