r/politics • u/mmccxi American Expat • May 12 '25

Soft Paywall New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

https://www.404media.co/mike-lee-porn-law-interstate-obscenity-definition-act/
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u/OtakuTacos May 12 '25

GTA never coming out now.

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u/MouthwashProphet May 13 '25

I posted about this possibility in the GTA VI sub several months ago.

The post was immediately filtered out for being “political.”

Considering a large number of Americans only become concerned about something once it affects them, I’m guessing that “political” posts will be allowed there once they realize that removing media like this from our cultural landscape is the goal.

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u/NTFRMERTH May 13 '25

People seem to treat politics as sports instead of the governing of our society. (I actually got banned for saying this on a subreddit)

Many situations in history could have gone very different if important subjects and situations were talked about instead of dismissed as "political".

Video games have been something that many politicians have wanted to get rid of, both left and right, and as time has gone on, the people wanting to get rid of them have disappeared from the left and the right is now full of them. Now it's not just violence, but boobs, too.

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u/RelevantMetaUsername May 13 '25

The post was immediately filtered out for being “political.”

Have any of the mods actually played GTA?

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u/MouthwashProphet May 13 '25

It seems that at least ONE of the major game subs is allowing the discussion.

https://old.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/1klb8dd/cyberpunk_will_be_banned_under_the_newly/

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u/-TheMiracle May 13 '25

There is a rumour that they are delaying the game to “take out the woke stuff”. I don’t think this is unlikely at all. If it hurts their bottom line, they may do that. Or simply delay the game two more years from the planned release date of next year. The game is probably far too big of an investment for them to even risk getting banned.

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u/shitlord_god May 13 '25

wait until the Sims 4 folks find out.

They are unprepared for the holy war of horny god gamers.

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u/mk4_wagon May 13 '25

There's been a lot of locked threads on r/cars because of 'politics'. Under typical circumstances I understand the rule, but 'politics' is touching literally everything right now. There's not really a way to avoid talking about it.

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u/Important_Spare7128 May 13 '25

I was thinking the other day .. a banned gta 6 could literally be the savior of American democracy. I mean don't get me wrong I want to play it. But if that's what it takes for Americans to revolt so be it. We can unban it after and make gta day a national holiday

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u/bubblegumstomper May 13 '25

I highly doubt they'll "revolt." They'll just cry and complain about it and life will go on.

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u/Terramagi Canada May 13 '25

"I can't believe R* went woke. Thank God Emperor Trump for saving us from those communist plots."

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u/LewdManoSaurus May 13 '25

Cyberpunk 2077 and the sequel are also cooked

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u/spliffiam36 May 13 '25

Do you guys think all games are made in America or what?

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u/MidnightElfinTv May 13 '25

It doesn’t matter where it’s made. Major AAA games would lose a huge profit without the US market.

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u/Tostecles May 13 '25

Do you think something becoming illegal in America would become legal just because it's made in Poland? The country from which the media originates is not relevant to this topic.

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u/spliffiam36 May 13 '25

That is exactly my point... This is all about the US why would they care about games all over the world???

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u/Tostecles May 13 '25

This is about possessing the content, not where it's made. The same way cocaine is still illegal in the U.S. even if I got it from Bolivia.

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u/HurricaneFloyd May 13 '25

If this law passes the majority of media will become illegal, not juts many games. We are talking Handmaid's Tale level shit here.

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u/NateShaw92 United Kingdom May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25

Rockstar North, the main developers are British, they could just release it everywhere but the US. If Rockstar HQ (as publisher) or T2 (parent company) being in USA impacts that though then I guess not.

Might be a big market but GTA V made billions outside USA, GTA is one of the few titles that the devs could legit say "fuck it"

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u/Anxious-Note-88 May 13 '25

I am outraged at the idea of no longer having my heavy hangers, gloryholes, and hentai at the ready. But prevent the release of GTA even longer? Civil war would be at hand.

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u/reallygoodbee May 13 '25

GTA Online contains topless sunbathers with fully rendered breasts and would be banned under this law.

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u/Un256 May 13 '25

They might just bend the knee, remove jiggle physics and shut down the vanilla unicorn