The Supreme Court Case That Could End Porn as We Know It

[Bonnot]

https://www.gq.com/story/supreme-court-porn-free-speech

Age-gating laws have broad, bipartisan appeal. But they aren’t the end game of the anti-porn movement. Project 2025 co-author and former director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought reportedly celebrated the age-gate laws at the center of the Supreme Court decision. The goal, he said in a hidden-camera recording published by the Intercept, is to hold porn platforms liable when children wrongfully access porn, effectively putting them out of business. He called the laws a “back door” route to “a national ban on pornography.” Oklahoma has already introduced a bill that would imprison people for possession of all sexually explicit material, with one exception—sexting between married couples, as God intended.



And if age-gate laws are upheld, the implications could reach much further than free tube sites like Pornhub. The decision could enable the government to restrict any speech they believe is “harmful to minors,” a mutable, subjective judgment. (They’ll know it when they see it). The ACLU worries that sites that host R-rated movies, sex education materials, and LGBTQ content could be imperiled—along with the people who make and share these things. Project 2025 describes its next steps as follows: “The people who produce and distribute [pornography] 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.”



Project 2025 bullshit. And more of the religious right attacking freedoms because they’re sensitive and freaked out people aren’t capitulating to their world view and centering it above all else.

And because we have too many religious freaks in government and on the court, it’s likely to be a problem and help push Christian nationalism and turn this country into a bigger shithole than republicans have made it over the last 40+ years.

More right wing puritanical garbage. Christian conservatives really are a piss stain on society and freedoms.

Just more fascism and censorship from the right wing using their bullshit religion as a stepping stone do so.

It’s so hard for them to just keep it in their church and piss off. The rest of us aren’t in religious cults or wanna be forced to live in under their dogmatic and fundie extremist world view.

 

[TobyOne]

Saw project 2025 and stopped reading. Its the liberal bogeyman. The same liberal outlets that wrote think pieces on how Biden was sound are now writing think pieces on 2025. Embarrassing.

 

[Noodlegawd]

https://www.gq.com/story/supreme-court-porn-free-speech

Age-gating laws have broad, bipartisan appeal. But they aren’t the end game of the anti-porn movement. Project 2025 co-author and former director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought reportedly celebrated the age-gate laws at the center of the Supreme Court decision. The goal, he said in a hidden-camera recording published by the Intercept, is to hold porn platforms liable when children wrongfully access porn, effectively putting them out of business. He called the laws a “back door” route to “a national ban on pornography.” Oklahoma has already introduced a bill that would imprison people for possession of all sexually explicit material, with one exception—sexting between married couples, as God intended.



And if age-gate laws are upheld, the implications could reach much further than free tube sites like Pornhub. The decision could enable the government to restrict any speech they believe is “harmful to minors,” a mutable, subjective judgment. (They’ll know it when they see it). The ACLU worries that sites that host R-rated movies, sex education materials, and LGBTQ content could be imperiled—along with the people who make and share these things. Project 2025 describes its next steps as follows: “The people who produce and distribute [pornography] 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.”



Project 2025 bullshit. And more of the religious right attacking freedoms because they’re sensitive and freaked out people aren’t capitulating to their world view and centering it above all else.

And because we have too many religious freaks in government and on the court, it’s likely to be a problem and help push Christian nationalism and turn this country into a bigger shithole than republicans have made it over the last 40+ years.

More right wing puritanical garbage. Christian conservatives really are a piss stain on society and freedoms.

Just more fascism and censorship from the right wing using their bullshit religion as a stepping stone do so.

It’s so hard for them to just keep it in their church and piss off. The rest of us aren’t in religious cults or wanna be forced to live in under their dogmatic and fundie extremist world view.

Paywall.

 

[aociswundumho]

Why the hell did you link to a paywalled article?

Project 2025 bullshit.

No, it's mommy-state bullshit which the left overwhelmingly supports in many other contexts.

Anyway, the problem is the fifth circuit applied rational basis to a law which clearly violates the first amendment.

 

[Threegoofs]

Porn is a core MAGA value.

Ban it and the frat bros, fake libertarians and trailer trash defect- which is about 40% of Trump support.

 

[Loulit01]

Remember the crazy freakout when Janet Jackson had a wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl and her boob was in sight for about a second and a half? People went nuts.

On the other hand...

Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786 (2011)
(AP) -- States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people's First Amendment rights and leaving it up to parents and the multibillion-dollar gaming industry to decide what kids can buy.

The high court, on a 7-2 vote, threw out California's 2005 law covering games sold or rented to those under 18, calling it an unconstitutional violation of free-speech rights. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia, said, "Even where the protection of children is the object, the constitutional limits on governmental action apply."

"What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting the sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her?" Breyer said.

Can't ban violent video sales to kids, court says

(AP) -- States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people's First Amendment rights and leaving it up to parents and the multibillion-dollar gaming industry to decide what kids can buy.

phys.org

You'll pardon me if I don't join the ban porn stampede quite yet. I'd rather get rid of the violence first. Having said that, there's all kinds of free porn on the net any kid can watch at any time, so something reasonable should be done.