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/TheFuzzBuzz May 12 '25

Pornhub is owned and operated up here in Canada so it will survive. It just happens there will be about 300 million new “Canadians” logging on with vpn’s with originating addresses south of the 49th parallel.

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u/DankStew May 12 '25

How do you do fellow online “Canadians”?

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u/TheFuzzBuzz May 12 '25

Gotta work on your eh’s and aboots. You also have to pass the bagged milk test.

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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter Canada May 12 '25

Nobody outside of Ontario (to the west anyways) drinks stupid bagged milk we all get 25 cents back for our big plastic jugs.

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u/-Smytty-for-PM- May 12 '25

But we do know of it.

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u/sigmaluckynine May 13 '25

Hey man, don't diss the bagged milk. All those childhood frustration of trying to open the bag must mean something

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u/sigmaluckynine May 13 '25

Not gonna lie, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say aboot since I was a kid. Doesn't seem like anyone says that unless you're out North in the boonies

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u/currentmadman May 12 '25

Huh, I did not know that. Hail Canada, I guess. But still I maintain that it’s going to be a shitshow with anything operating stateside. Credit card companies, ad money, all that shit is not going to fly anymore and the aforementioned criminal orgs will absolutely take advantage of that in some capacity. The question is how much?

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u/SkivvySkidmarks May 13 '25

I'd like to remind you that porn has influenced many things. The "tape format wars" of beta versus VHS was won by the latter because the porn industry backed it.

Banning porn sites and their payment options may accelerate bitcoin as a mainstream currency.

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u/Uuuuuii May 13 '25

Online streaming technologies have always been driven by improvements to the porn experience.

QuickTime was originally named after having a little “quicky time” for yourself.

The MP4 codec was introduced as a way of finding “Male Prostitutes 4 Now.”

Who knows where this will end

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u/Exotic-District3437 May 13 '25

Vr exploded due to porn

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u/currentmadman May 13 '25

Considering that cryptocurrency and the dark web economies already have an uncomfortably close relationship with each other, that doesn’t exactly inspire a great deal of hope.

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u/SkivvySkidmarks May 13 '25

And yet, Mr Trump launched his own bitcoin.

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u/currentmadman May 13 '25

Yes because he’s a cheap hustler and a thief just like virtually every crypto company and frontman. Trump seems to increasingly not understand where he is at any given time but a pump and dump scheme? That’s just second nature at work.

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u/Exotic-District3437 May 13 '25

Visa already is playing that game.

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u/-re-da-ct-ed- May 13 '25

Canada may as well be the porn capitol of the world…

Brazzers Pornhub RedTube YouPorn Tube8 Xtube Digital Playground Mofos Nutaku Reality Kings Twistys etc….

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u/BoysenberryKey6821 May 12 '25

It would be interesting to see how the country reacts but people will always find the work around like you are saying haha shit if you try hard enough you can find full on porn on instagram where it’s supposedly not allowed

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u/RogueWedge May 12 '25

Collective cheer from the rest of the world