Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn (avn.com)
from Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 00:51
https://programming.dev/post/37505130

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37503455

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Assassassin@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 00:55 next collapse

Lmao good luck idiots. Already tried it with alcohol, then with weed. How’d those work out? Porn isn’t even tangible.

Carmakazi@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 01:09 next collapse

It doesn’t need to be absolute in success, it just needs to be applied arbitrarily to further abuse out-groups.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 16 Sep 02:25 next collapse

If I'm not wrong that was the whole point of criminalizing weed.

acosmichippo@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 02:45 collapse

which will also have the opposite of their intended effect and create more crime via black markets, trafficking etc.

vividspecter@aussie.zone on 16 Sep 02:59 next collapse

They don’t care about crime at all, it’s just a dogwhistle for black and brown people. If anything, this is a benefit because it means they can inflict harm on more people they don’t like during the “crackdown”.

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 16 Sep 03:38 next collapse

No, that is the intended effect. Their enemies will become criminals, which means they can arrest them and use them to justify further state power.

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 06:30 collapse

You mean “stated effect”, which you should know by now is almost always a lie, like when a politician’s lips move.

nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 02:01 next collapse

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dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Sep 17:05 next collapse

It’d make being transgender inherently pornographic, possibly allowing them to harass, abuse, and roundup trans people.

applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 18:55 collapse

Guess I’m learning how to draw. I’ll make my own big dick futa waifu fuck my ideal big dick futa self.

Assassassin@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 19:44 collapse

Live your best life, fam.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 21:10 collapse

Then post it for the rest of us.

db2@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 01:47 next collapse

Well we know they won’t ban grindr…

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 16 Sep 01:55 next collapse

Sounds like a declaration of war.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 02:22 collapse

All of project 2025 is the fascist declaration of war. When the heritage foundation architect said “the revolution will be bloodless, if the left allow it” he meant they will murder everyone who opposes their Christian fascist dictatorship. Everything left of fascism is “the left”.

EndOfLine@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 02:10 next collapse

From the bill:

“Pornographic material” includes any content, digital, streamed, or otherwise distributed on the internet, the primary purpose of which is to sexually arouse or gratify, including videos, erotica, magazines, stories, manga, material generated by artificial intelligence, live feeds, or sound clips.

Soooo they want stronger plot lines in their porn? Is that what I’m hearing? Something that they can sit down and watch with the family?

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 03:08 next collapse

I thought that’s what softcore porn is for.

applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 18:59 collapse

I never understood softcore porn. They go to all the trouble of setting up emotional amd sexual tension just to waste it on a hammy holywood makeout scene where all you see is boobs and bush.

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 19:15 collapse

🤷 I could say the same about a variety of kinks. It’s someone’s jam even if it’s not mine.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 16 Sep 04:05 next collapse

Am I missing something or can you just get around this by not having it on the Internet? Like you could just start shuffling a bunch of flash drives around.

qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de on 16 Sep 05:30 collapse

It says that the content can’t be digital, you’d have to use video tapes or other analog medium.

Electricblush@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 05:57 next collapse

Somebody trying to increase the value of their extensive VHS collection? 🤔

Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Sep 12:32 collapse

They just want to bring back porno mags because the old gezers keep getting viruses trying to find it on line.

PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 12:06 next collapse

You seem to be mistaken, sir: the primary purpose of this content is to promote dialogue on the meaning of interpersonal relations and the growth of human experience.

Maybe you just don’t have a good grasp on art studies.

altphoto@lemmy.today on 16 Sep 12:47 next collapse

I get aroused by the weight loss drugs, diabetes medication, tires, car, hear care product, online shopping, restaurant, grocery store and fastfood commercials! Can we get rid of those?

BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:31 next collapse

In case it wasn’t clear to everyone, the end goal here is not banning porn, but to classify being gay, trans, etc, as sexually arousing and ban any speech by anyone in those groups, followed by banning those groups.

kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Sep 22:25 collapse

I’m guessing they’ll completely shutdown HBO in the state then. Peacemaker alone would be enough.

Lucky_777@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 02:13 next collapse

If they think the illegal drug trade is bad, let’s think about the illegal sex trade!..wait…

whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Sep 02:50 next collapse

Puritan idiots

WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 03:08 next collapse

I’m going to jerk off to this attempt to ban porn.

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 03:10 next collapse

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TheRealKuni@piefed.social on 16 Sep 03:41 collapse

Cursed stretched 16:9 Dr. Cox

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 03:58 collapse

Fixed

TheRealKuni@piefed.social on 16 Sep 03:58 next collapse

Beautiful

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 04:30 collapse

…well now I want to see the cursed one.

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 04:42 collapse

You asked for it.

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Truthfully, I think it makes his head look more normal.

paraphrand@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 06:18 collapse

I wonder if either of them are actually the correct scene.

TheRealKuni@piefed.social on 16 Sep 11:21 collapse

Yes, the 4:3 image is the proper scene.

Here’s the clip

Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 03:24 next collapse

Hey Americans, this is the future you’re building.

dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 03:37 next collapse

This won’t pass (not now anyway) but it’s funny they want to ban the bible. Or they’re too dumb to realize that implication.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 16 Sep 10:20 next collapse

Will be excluded (again) for cultural relevance or some similiar bullshit excuse.

frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 10:51 next collapse

Nina Hartley is also culturally relevant, CMV.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 16 Sep 11:21 collapse

It already is excluded unless the primary purpose of the bible is arousal.

[deleted] on 16 Sep 11:23 collapse

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 11:52 collapse

What’s “funny” is that you think they give a shit about consistency.

Of course this will not include the Bible

dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 12:12 collapse

Don’t worry, I don’t actually think that at all. I’m one of the people who expects to be thrown in a ‘camp’ within the next couple years. I’m one of the people who’s been saying this kind of shit was coming for most of my life.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 12:15 collapse

Right there with you, buddy. Stay safe.

dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 12:16 collapse

You too.

sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz on 16 Sep 03:42 next collapse

They’re banning explicit manga AND erotica? Gooners, you gotta rise up and save the Michigan fujoshis and fudanshi!

In all seriousness, the real reason is clear, conservatives love telling on themselves:

Schriver’s bill also has a transphobic component. If adopted into law, the act includes prohibitions on material that “includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of one biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex.”

Someone in the Michigan legislature got caught being too into femboys or something similarly stupid, probably.

JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 05:09 next collapse

Bugs bunny is so fuckin screwed

Feathercrown@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 14:53 next collapse
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org on 16 Sep 17:54 collapse

Fuckin Shakespeare is screwed.

TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:51 collapse

I mean, this is the same guy that wants to criminalize homosexuality so that’s on brand.

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 06:28 next collapse

But not gambling, cigarettes, day trading, doom scrolling, sub minimum wage gig work right ?

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 11:23 collapse

Don’t forget congressional insider trading!

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 21:09 collapse

Also pedophilia on private islands!

Quazatron@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 06:49 next collapse

As a relatively recent country (by European standards), USA did not go through the Middle Age. I guess this is it. Enjoy the public burnings of heretics.

echodot@feddit.uk on 16 Sep 15:08 collapse

Presumably there were some native Americans in that part of the world by that point in time. I wonder what they were doing.

Quazatron@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 16:13 collapse

I’m sure they were not killing each other over imaginary friends, or debating whether mammary glands should banned.

daggermoon@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 07:38 next collapse

Yeah that ain’t passing in Michigan.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 11:30 next collapse

While they all install VPNs for themselves.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:29 next collapse

The GOP really thinks there won’t be any more elections, don’t they?

echodot@feddit.uk on 16 Sep 15:01 next collapse

Yeah, if trumples is still around by the next election they will try for a 3rd term with all the fun times that will bring.

But if he’s dead/has been trundled off to a gar gar home (he’s 99.5% of the way there anyway), then I think they’ll have a hard time of it.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:47 collapse

At the speed at which this is happening, there won’t be, and I’m not joking.

No one is coming to save us.

Arm up. Train. Help everyone you can arm up and train. Form networks and use encrypted messaging apps to communicate.

I’m not going to pretend like I know how this will play out, but the one thing I know is that our federal government has been captured by literal fascists and they’re going to dial this up to 11 and see what happens. Maybe they simply don’t have enough national support to really pull it off. Maybe they do. I do know that you don’t want to be unprepared if they do.

It can happen here. We never thought we’d be where are are right now. But we are.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 16 Sep 19:25 next collapse

There will be elections. They’ll just be sham elections in the places where they’re overseen by Republicans.

Doomsider@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 22:17 collapse

So normal then?

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 16 Sep 22:32 collapse

Worse than what used to be normal.

shalafi@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 19:30 collapse

100% with ya. Going shooting at my camp shortly.

psycho_driver@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:38 next collapse

VPN companies hearing the distant cha-chinging of cash registers.

WindyRebel@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 13:11 next collapse

GOP projecting again. Sounds like the party has a porn addiction!

bytesonbike@discuss.online on 16 Sep 13:57 next collapse

Just came to say this.

Check this dude’s hard drive for petabytes of porn.

aceshigh@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 14:11 next collapse

Which lawmakers are they?

ganryuu@lemmy.ca on 16 Sep 14:38 collapse

I see it more as a step towards banning a ton of content they don’t like by claiming they are porn, or porn-adjacent (for example any LGBTQ+ content)

TipRing@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 18:40 collapse

It was literally outlined as this in Project2025, ban porn then define speech you want to suppress (primarily LGBT but also women’s health) as porn.

[deleted] on 16 Sep 13:34 next collapse

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andros_rex@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 14:49 next collapse

Eight states have ID verification laws.

Oklahoma has tried several times to make viewing porn a felony.

Everyone laughing this off as impossible is not taking this seriously enough.

shalafi@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 19:29 next collapse

I’m in Florida and so many sites block or want to verify me that I automatically hit my VPN server.

Euphoma@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 20:58 collapse

Honestly I forgot porn was banned in Utah (id verification) and I live in Utah. Its still relatively easy to view sites without vpn or id

Cheems@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 14:53 next collapse

“if I am very against it no one will think I’m an elite gooner”

MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 14:57 next collapse

If they removed porn from the internet, the next day there would only be one website called ‘BringBackAllthePorn.com’"

Dr. Cox

BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 15:02 next collapse

Freedom of speech that we like and have previously approved in writing and in triplicate. Subject to terms, conditions, feelings, and whims.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 17:40 next collapse

Conservatives melting down

DarkFuture@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:42 next collapse

American Taliban.

Simple as that.

Domestic terrorists who typically look unkempt and dirty, attempting to oppress others.

American Taliban.

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 21:20 next collapse

Hello, I assure you unkempt dirty people are fine people please do not associate us with these anti-human scums

CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one on 16 Sep 22:00 collapse

They’re not domestic terrorists when they’re the ones in charge. They’re fascists.

njordomir@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 20:31 next collapse

They’re just making a market for someone to compile a 1TB “Best of the Best Cumpilation”, copy it to a handful of cheap terrabyte drives and resell them (to legal adults) in a verification state.

  • This comment should not be read as condoning copyright infringement, but rather as a commentary pointing out that prohibition instantly creates very easy to serve and lucrative black markets that will be filled by someone.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 21:19 collapse

Hello, I am here to condone copyright infrigement and advocate for the abolition of the intellectual property regime and the criminalization of pro-copyright advocacy for they are enclosers of culture and therefore the enemy of humanity and should be ground into a fine powder.

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Also, abolish Michigan !

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 16 Sep 23:33 collapse

Which is already illegal, which they know. It’s not about the porn. It’s about seeing what they can get away with.

Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip on 17 Sep 01:40 collapse

They’re all velociraptors testing the fences