Donald Trump's election win could lead to porn being banned
newsweek.com
Summary
Project 2025, a manifesto supported by the conservative Heritage Foundation, calls for a ban on pornography, labeling its purveyors as criminals and advocating for strict penalties, including jail time for producers and registered sex offender status for educators distributing it.
The manifesto argues that porn lacks First Amendment protection, framing it as harmful and exploitative.
With a right-leaning Supreme Court, proponents aim to overturn existing protections established in Miller v. California, potentially impacting mainstream media.
Donald Trump has pledged to bring Project 2025 contributors onto his team.
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I am not a fan of porn. I find it problematic. But fucking get real, no one’s banning porn. Everyone has a porn-producing camera in their pocket. These fucking idiots, I hope they all have painful and protracted aneurysms.
No, you dont get it. They want to do it precisely because everyone has a porn-producing camera in their pocket, and they can selectively enforce what gets prosecuted. Who wants to bet they go after the gay "porn" first? (And by porn, I mean "picture of two men kissing")
Exactly. This will be just like the "war on drugs" - something to weaponize against groups they don't like.
I don't think even the war on drugs is a strong enough comparison. I don't think we have anything in our nation's history that will compare to the transformation that will occur come January 20.
The nation will become unrecognizable. This paradigm of, "we need good candidates," and, "the Democrats need to pander more to the left" shit will cease to exist, because fair elections will cease to exist. Political parties will be declared terrorist organizations, and many people will likely be executed (or at the very least, imprisoned for a very long time, simply for identifying as a Democrat).
There is no analogy for this. Not in US history at least...
One corollary is that it'd probably make a little easier for law enforcement/government agencies to subpoena ISPs or snoop around in phones looking for things that aren't porn. Realistically probably won't happen but I bet this is a cop's wet dream similar to 'distinct smell of marijuana'. Plausible deniability is big brother's best friend
Indeed. This is the breakdown of individual rights people were referring to.
I’m sure it will start with some sort of “think of the children.”
Yup, hypothetically like the Patriot act. Blow smoke up everyone's ass saying they only use it within its scope (a rather virtuous scope such as 'preventing sexual exploitation'), the majority with their suspension of disbelief chanting that mantra 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear'. If you go so far as to point out how it could hypothetically be misused you're met with everything from 'take the tinfoil hat off' to 'which side are you on'. Or worse.
But then years later everyone finds out that it was misused so much that even those misusing it can't determine the extent to which it was misused. Just a bunch of case studies of criminal charges in which it was found to have been misused
Again, at the risk of repeating myself: they will not need subpoenas dude. That's not how fascism works. The corporations will become an arm of the government, to be used at the whim of its sole leader, or they will be eliminated.
This has happened before.
People are still talking as if things will just continue as normal, and there will be rule of law that is in any way fair. Please wake up, people.
GOP is the party of rules for thee not for me. The leadership are all disgustingly wealthy so they can easily fly their mistresses to another country for abortions, drug fueled sex parties, etc...
Pot is illegal, and everyone is high, but a cop could make an example out of anyone any time in an illegal state.
Same scenario.
When will people realize that none of that shit matters anymore. They absolutely will ban it, and they will selectively enforce the ban.
That's how fascism works. There's no, "but the people will be upset". Yeah no shit that's the point.