Current Events > Congressional GOP to finally make their move and come after horny.

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https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-gop-bill-seeks-sledgehammer-163353436.html

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Lee has justified the legislation in part by arguing that the Supreme Courts Miller Test is no longer applicable in an era where porn is primarily viewed online and easy for children to access.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.

You may be smiling for now Fandom, but this fight will never be over!

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.

mercurydude posted...

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.

The same party is also in favor of child marriage, so they're definitely thinking of the children.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/05/gop-official-argues-in-favor-of-child-marriage-girls-are-ripe-and-fertile.html

Since they invoked the sacred name Of the Children then this will surely pass without issue.

The intent here is to redefine anything LGBTQ as obscene.

Ah, yet another plan directly laid out in Project 2025.

The goal of this is to execute trans people btw. They don't care about porn. They are using porn as a scapegoat.

Still so confused how anti-woke crusaders are on the same side as these other ghouls, when they should be diametrically opposed.

The proposed definition, by the way, will already apply to a ton of rated R movies.

Edit: and video games, I guess.

Sansoldier posted...

Still so confused how anti-woke crusaders are on the same side as these other ghouls, when they should be diametrically opposed.

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.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Republican Illinois Rep. Mary Miller

No shit

If you had to guess which state would be responsible for banning porn how many would've said Utah?

Fandom has infiltrated the government.

Trust and safety for all, unless you pay.

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.

I blame MAGA supporters and protest voters for this.

Republicans fucking love living in a nanny state, don't ever let one of them tell you otherwise.

1934

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19 thirty fucking four

I'd like to say that finally this might be the thing to wake these dummies up, but watching them make every excuse for the illegal shit he's done so far gives me zero hope that dumbass Americans will learn anything.

lilORANG posted...

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.

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.

If anything's going to cause a significant voting bloc shift, it's this.

lilORANG posted...

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.

Hopefully the argument is something like "You made a ruling. Congress is now trying to legislate a new interpretation of your ruling. If you allow this, courts will have no more power, as they can simply redefine any precedent or opinion however they please."

I feel even a whack ass court the way it is would still strike that down 9-0

Ah another of the checklist from Project 2025 I see. These people won't be satisfied until America has more in common with Afghanistan than the rest of the developed Western world.

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.

Evening_Dragon posted...

If anything's going to cause a significant voting bloc shift, it's this.

...Which won't matter when they gut any future elections.

Remember: Once you vote in a fascist dictatorship, you can't just vote it out.

LinkDaLunatic posted...

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.

LinkDaLunatic posted...

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.

Their poison has thoroughly seeped through Gen X and especially Gen Z.

Tyranthraxus posted...

The intent here is to redefine anything LGBTQ as obscene.

Yep. Russia already did this. Trump is following Putin's example

Solar_Crimson posted...

It's not even just old Boomers anymore.

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.

they hate porn b/c it gives women agency and women have more power on porn sites.

they were fine with it when it was a male-run industry with sleezy producers etc etc

SaikyoStyle posted...

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.

metralo posted...

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.

Leopards and faces. Hilarious the anti-woke people were so certain the right was their friend.

First they came for our forum posts..
and you said nothing