Congressional Republicans will introduce legislation Thursday that would severely crack down on internet pornography and potentially deal a major blow to the online porn industry.
Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Republican Illinois Rep. Mary Millers Interstate Obscenity Definition Act would create a national definition of obscenity under the Communications Act of 1934 and amend the Supreme Courts 1973 Miller Test for determining what qualifies as obscene, according to background on the bill exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The bill would pave the way for the prosecution of obscene content disseminated across state lines or from foreign countries and open the door to federal restrictions or bans regarding online porn.
Obscenity isnt protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children, Lee told the DCNF. Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age so this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted.
Lee and Miller have been leading advocates in Congress to take on internet pornography at the federal level and protect children from exposure to online porn.
The lawmakers bill would make obscenity easier to prosecute by altering the three-pronged approach known as the Miller Test from the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Miller v. California, according to the background on the bill. The Miller Test determined content to be obscene if it appeals to prurient interests, describes sexual conduct in a patently obscene way and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Lee and Miller are seeking to update that definition in part by changing the second prong about portraying sexual conduct in a patently offensive way specifically defined by the applicable state law. Instead, their bill would determine content to be obscene if it depicts or describes actual or simulated sexual acts with the objective intent to arouse, titillate or gratify the sexual desires of a person.
Lee has justified the legislation in part by arguing that the Supreme Courts Miller Test is no longer applicable in an era where porn is primarily viewed online and easy for children to access.
Applying a pre-internet standard to the internet era causes serious challenges, background on the bill obtained by the DCNF argues.
Lee called for a porn ban on the platform X in February. He and Miller introduced the SCREEN Act that month which would require pornographic websites to use age verification technologies to prevent children from being exposed to online porn.
It's always "won't somebody think of the children?" to justify this shit, but from the same party that has no problem with psychos using kids for target practice.
Still so confused how anti-woke crusaders are on the same side as these other ghouls, when they should be diametrically opposed.
Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Republican Illinois Rep. Mary Miller
Congress can't just pass a bill redefining what is essentially an issue of speech. That's a purely constitutional and therefore judicial determination.I'm so glad you qualified your post with that second line because I was about to throw digital hands. I am so tired of people who keep saying "they can't just do this, they can't just do that" when it just doesn't apply anymore. They're not playing by the same rules these days. They've made that abundantly clear; they don't give a damn about the law, or the constitution, or anyone's rights or anything else.
I mean this SCOTUS will allow it, but that's not how it should work.
Congress can't just pass a bill redefining what is essentially an issue of speech. That's a purely constitutional and therefore judicial determination.
I mean this SCOTUS will allow it, but that's not how it should work.
If anything's going to cause a significant voting bloc shift, it's this....Which won't matter when they gut any future elections.
Their goal is very clearly to reform America as a land of white Christians (Catholics are also acceptable), put women back under the thumb of men and ban anything that makes all these old white boomers uncomfortable.All positive depiction of LGBT people will categorically be regarded as "pornography" by Republicans, and will be used as an excuse by Republicans to ramp up their fascist oppression of everyone they hate.
Their goal is very clearly to reform America as a land of white Christians (Catholics are also acceptable), put women back under the thumb of men and ban anything that makes all these old white boomers uncomfortable.It's not even just old Boomers anymore.
The intent here is to redefine anything LGBTQ as obscene.Yep. Russia already did this. Trump is following Putin's example
It's not even just old Boomers anymore.Gen Z boys are lashing out because Gen Z girls want to date older.
Their poison has thoroughly seeped through Gen X and especially Gen Z.
Gen Z boys are lashing out because Gen Z girls want to date older.Gen Z boys are obsessed with Tate, so I can't blame the girlZ for that one. Though I bet they're also going to realize that the older men willing to date them aren't the types of dudes you want to be in a relationship with anyways.
anti-woke people actually don't like porn. Because in porn/OF content, the woman has agency and makes money.
Thats why they love horny in video games, anime and AI.