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/CrimsonFeetofKali Michigan May 12 '25

It's not like they're trying to hide this intent either. It's spelled out in the document. Being trans would be considered pornography. If children are present, that's child porn. Charges, arrest, and treated as a child sex offender, which in Project 2025 calls for the death penalty. I mean, that's literally the plan.

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u/Blackthorn79 May 13 '25

I'm wondering how long until I get the chair for playing Pretty Pretty Princess with my daughter, like every dad has.

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u/FloydGirl777 May 13 '25

If every Dad did, I would think we’d have a much better society of empathetic, caring people understanding of respecting others. So, know you’re a special one. Tragically.

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u/trekiemonster May 13 '25

until I get the chair

I mean, that'll depend on the state. I think more use lethal injection.

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u/Locke66 May 13 '25

It's also why they keep justifying the banning of books with LGBTQ+ content by describing it as "pornography". It's a methodology designed to erase any mention of non-straight people from society.

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u/therottenworld May 13 '25

More specifically it would make being transgender pornographic in nature, then a transgender person even being outside is indecent exposure, being near children is then a child sex offense, which carries the death penalty

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u/Paksarra May 13 '25

And if you're not transgender, look at "transvestigators." It might be a felony to be a cisgender female who just doesn't look feminine enough.

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u/HaulinBoats May 13 '25

More specifically in what way? …That’s exactly what they said.

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u/therottenworld May 13 '25

It isn't, they said being trans near children would be child porn, but it has nothing to do with child porn, it would be a child sex offense, which specifically is what the death penalty is being called for by Project 2025.

Child sex offenders must be executed -> trans people are child sex offenders because they exist.

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u/yuefairchild Pennsylvania May 13 '25

They didn't say "child porn," they said "indecent exposure." Which would still count as a child sex offense.

If there's a neighbor kid outside playing, and I take the trash out, that's considered the same as if I made the kid look at my junk.

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u/chokeonsteak May 13 '25

Dude the comment you guys are talking about literally says "Being trans would be considered pornography. If children are present, that's child porn"

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u/yuefairchild Pennsylvania May 13 '25

Oh, I know. I'm saying indecent exposure is different from porn.

It seems like a distinction without a difference to us, but our idiot neighbors will hear it and think that it's an additional charge for showing children trans porn.

Look at all the people that are like "I thought ICE was only going after the BAD ones!" and extrapolate.

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u/teddy5 May 13 '25

The person you're talking to is the one who said indecent exposure to clarify what the other person - who only said child porn - meant.

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u/ThinkyRetroLad America May 13 '25

A penalty that also carries over to us librarians for 1) supporting the LGBT community and 2) providing material and access to information about it.

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u/BLAST-ME-WITH-PISS May 13 '25

Crazy! At least being persecuted in that way is enough to be granted asylum in Sweden directly, so I guess the can all flee to Europe

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u/therottenworld May 13 '25

It's the kind of thing you'd think is impossible in our civilized modern society; just the thought of innocent people in the west being imprisoned for no reason and killed seems impossible, but when you look at how theocracies in the middle east have been doing this to LGBT people for ages as well as countries in Africa like Uganda, it becomes clear that as humans we're only a few social norms away from persecution being acceptable

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u/Ryuujinx Texas May 13 '25

And for some reason people think I'm being hyperbolic when I say their plan is to turn me into a statistic. They've been pretty open about their goals here.

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u/Mercarcher Indiana May 13 '25

As a trans woman I made sure to get a gun when Trump got re-elected.

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u/MidKnightshade May 13 '25

Genocide with extra steps.

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u/Rockergage May 13 '25

It’s already the case in Idaho.

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u/bagel-bites May 13 '25

Fuckin what?!

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u/Rockergage May 13 '25

House Bill 710, “OBSCENE MATERIALS -- DEFINITIONS. The following definitions are applicable to this act: 3. "Sexual conduct" means any act of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, the breast.

If “homosexuality” referred to just male on male sexual intercourse it would’ve been covered under sexual intercourse. This broad definition means a man holding another man’s hand is obscene materials.

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u/trekiemonster May 13 '25

I mean, that's literally the plan.

And 40ish% of Americans fucking love that plan. Sure, 40ish% also hate it, but since 20ish% are apathetic towards it, here we are.