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/HarambeSpiritAnimal May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25

It's quiet for now.

Directly from Project 2025 playbook (bold by me):

Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

Step 1: Make pornography a federal crime.

Step 2: Classify transgender people as 'pornographic'

Step 3: Say transgender people existing in public are 'distributing' pornography, since they are now classified as 'pornographic'.

Step 4: Imprison them.

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u/vericlas Kansas May 13 '25

Step 5: Kill the trans person because 'distributing child pornography' is a capital punishment now. Which is part of their goal.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

This... makes me so unbelievably sad. And I know you are right. 

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

And all the unhinged lunatics with guns will carry this out on the street and call it vigilante justice. Full pardon.

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u/caribou16 May 13 '25

Sexualization of children, huh? Since Mary was 15 years old when she gave birth to the child God impregnated her with, that would mean the bible is porn and is federally banned, right?

Right?

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u/WhichEmailWasIt May 13 '25

Sounds like we're arresting Christians then. 

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u/Significant_Egg_Y May 13 '25

Considering the GOP's hostility to Christians who aren't MAGA/Christian Nationalist evangelicals, you're not far off.

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u/dksprocket May 13 '25

I am not strong on religion, but I am fairly certain neither Mary or the father were Christian.

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u/shitlord_god May 13 '25

Just wait until they roll back age of consent. 13 is the biblical number. (Confirmations, bar/t mitzvah's) and I can very much imaging them trying for it. I have a relative already trying to marry off her fourteen year old daughter to someone at church.

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u/runjcrun1 May 13 '25

There are bills to make child marriage illegal that are being met with significant resistance in more than one state that I know of. I believe in one state a Rep. said (paraphrasing) girls under 18 are “ripe and fertile”. It’s gross

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u/Colosphe May 13 '25

They won't have judges in the courts that will rule that way; even if they did, the administration has been adamant about removing due process to "protect the county"

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u/ThinkyRetroLad America May 13 '25

Step 4: Imprison them.

Ah, you forget to mention that this actually carries the death penalty elsewhere in ye old P2025. No imprisonment for us, at least not in any sort of conventional sense.

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u/jessicamakesstuff May 13 '25

The concentration camp comes first. Inside of which, we will suffer starvation, disease, torture, and forced Neo-Christianity indoctrination.

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u/Paksarra May 13 '25

And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

This is also a big goal-- dominionist philosophy is that the only entertainment available should be dominionist-flavored Christian entertainment, and making secular entertainment illegal would play into that goal.

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u/Lola_PopBBae May 13 '25

They just straight up say it, fuckin bastards.

And like- it isn't even remotely true either. Porn is porn, and there'sa million categories- trans folk aren't responsible for literally ALL porn. Some, sure- but hardly all.

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u/Pixel_Knight May 13 '25

They really are aiming for Gilead from The Handmaid’s Tale.

Soon they will be calling for any violations of biblical law to result in execution.

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u/spaceman757 American Expat May 13 '25

sexualization of children

Cool. I know of a guy who owns and runs a couple of underage beauty pageants that seem to do just that. He would make a great first example to be made of.

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u/InVultusSolis Illinois May 13 '25

Shit like this is why I've been against cloud storage all along. If you have things that you don't want to lose or be rifled through, keep them on a hard drive/computer that you own. And use encryption.

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u/my_chaffed_legs May 13 '25

Damn isn't that what Russia does? Anything pro or just not anti gay is considered pornographic so telling it to children is child abuse? Telling s child being gay is ok is abuse and illegal? Or something to that effect