Republican Senator Mike Lee introduced Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (again) last week, which would criminalize porn at the federal level.

Republicans are drunk with power. What a stupid fucking idea. There’s no chance of banning porn. Then they wouldn’t be able to jerk to Trans women and feel shame after.

Trans women are hot, in case that reads as though the shame is correct. It’s not.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    124·
    2 months ago

    Check this guy’s computer first. Guarantee there’s some fucked up shit on there. It’s always projection.

    • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      371·
      2 months ago

      Mike Lee is a full-blown Mormon, which heavily frowns upon porn in any form (including literal prophetic teachings calling women “walking pornography”), so he absolutely does have porn on his devices.

      Source: grew up Mormon, was taught this by leadership

      • madjo@feddit.nl
        7·
        2 months ago

        And their definition of “porn” is so broad, it’s bordering on ridiculous.

        • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          Dude… Their doctrine is all over the place haha. Like, everyone knew that the garments were all about “modestly”, and yet with the recent release of tank-top style women’s garment tops, they’re all claiming that “it was never about modesty teehee”. Fucking gaslighting bullshit. Same with rated R movies. Some leader somewhere stated that members shouldn’t watch rated R movies, and somehow everyone took it as literal gospel, despite it not being written anywhere.

          I’m so fucking glad I’m out of that goddamn cult.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    336·
    2 months ago

    At this point, US politics has gone far beyond the point where we can make jokes about morons voting for the face-eating leopard party. Anybody who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris because she wasn’t critical enough of Israel, didn’t do enough for LGBTQ rights, didn’t have enough left wing policies, etc. is now reaping what they sow.

  • missingno@fedia.io
    2384·
    2 months ago

    Remember that the far right has been desperately trying to label any LGBTQ-related content as ‘porn’. Educational resources? ‘Porn’. Biographies about gay people? ‘Porn’. Drag queens? ‘Porn’. A book about a boy with two mommies? ‘Porn’. Anything that acknowledges the existence of trans people? ‘Porn’.

    The purpose of this bill isn’t to ban porn, it’s to ban ‘porn’. Anything they don’t like will be deemed ‘porn’, and then this gives them the legal justification to ban whatever they want.

  • Dzso@lemmy.world
    581·
    2 months ago

    Under the bill, content would be considered obscene if it appeals to prurient interests in nudity

    And since they’ve already taken away due process, they’re basically paving the way to send anyone who has a body they don’t like to a death camp. I don’t think it’s hyperbole anymore to say that that US is fucked.

  • yoloswaggins@lemmy.world
    461·
    2 months ago

    ”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

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    66·
    2 months ago

    The American porn industry is as big as Hollywood. This is a big billions of dollars market. And the US porn industry provides 90% of international porn. So Trump and his GOP wants to kill the one last American industry where the US is world market leader by far.

    And I can easily see this industry moving to countries where actors are cheaper and less protected from abuse, diseases, and whatever else happening in this industry.

    While this will make some religious fundamentalists in the US feel superior and give them a sense of a perceived moral high ground, it will actually hurt the most vulnerable people in the chain the most. It will not reduce the amount of porn made, it will just make it much, much worse for those involved.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I think back to the maps that the sites released. The weirdest stuff was always consumed by the reddest areas. Look at the biggest areas where Step anything content is accessed. It’s overwhelmingly red.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      thinking like the fucking CCP.

      Even the CCP has some upsides. Kras’ trying to burn it all down himself

  • Olestraleakage@lemmy.world
    121·
    2 months ago

    It’s not even moral horseshit. They just want people (primarily of the white variety) fucking and popping out kids instead of jerking it. They need more serfs.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    121·
    2 months ago

    Are there really not enough house or senate votes, or court decisions, that we resort to writing articles about every bill introduced?

  • psion1369@lemmy.world
    431·
    2 months ago

    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?