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    Eine neue Rechnung würde alle Pornografie zu einem Bundesverbrechen in den USA machen
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    Eine neue Rechnung würde alle Pornografie zu einem Bundesverbrechen in den USA machen

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    1. vriska1 on

      Do we know how likely it is to pass? This guy try to pass this bill many times but has failed do far.

    3. Bubbly_Base_1011 on

      It is part of Project 2025 ~~to an extent~~ blatantly (edit: thank you for correcting me…, now chill), so I wonder if this time it might actually pass. I wonder how some of the well known sex-workers that are MAGA are feeling about this.

    4. mmccxi on

      For those who don’t want to log in:

      „Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which would effectively criminalize all pornography nationwide by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. For years, “obscenity” has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech that [remains unprotected](https://uwm.edu/freespeech/faqs/what-is-obscenity/) by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass virtually all visual representations of sex.

      According to [the bill text](https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/5/lee-bill-establishes-obscenity-definition-across-states?ref=404media.co), “a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction” of any media that “appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion” would be considered criminal. In other words, if you have an old VHS tape of some Cinemax-style smut stashed away in your garage, you could, under this law, be considered to be harboring deeply illicit materials. Some critics have suggested that Lee’s definition of obscenity is so ridiculously broad that it could effectively [criminalize *Game of Thrones*](https://reason.com/2025/05/12/republicans-want-to-redefine-obscenity/). That said, the punishments for merely possessing porn under the proposed law seem unclear at this point, as the legislation seems more focused on punishing the creators and distributors of racy material.

      The law would “pave the way for the prosecution of obscene content disseminated across state lines or from foreign countries and open the door to federal restrictions or bans regarding online porn,”

    7. Fun_Introduction4077 on

      Almost everybody watches porn. Hell, I’m sure this guy does as well. This is purely performative, in my opinion.

    9. DramaticWesley on

      Regardless of your feelings on it, pornography is a giant economic sector. The amount of money that goes to strip clubs, sex workers, and OnlyFans is probably larger than the budget of many states.

    11. bourj on

      People who work in porn and related endeavors should go one strike for a week and the resulting outrage would be unimaginable. Anyone who voted for the bill would lose their next election.

    12. CrimsonFeetofKali on

      Seems like this was part of Project 2025. And in that document, librarians and educators would be charged as sex offenders for distributing books and materials on transgender subjects, and trans people and drag queens would be charged for distributing pornography by being in public. You can’t enforce this at a federal level without defining porn at the federal level, thus giving federal law enforcement, and not local, the power to arrest.

      It’s right there in Project 2025 ….

      [Project 2025 Tracker](https://www.project2025.observer/)

    13. championkid on

      First they came for the stepbrother porn, and I did not speak out because I did not get off to that….

      Then they came for the MILF porn, and I did not speak out because I was not into that either…

    15. bschott007 on

      So… GTA 5 (probably GTA 6) or bascially any video game with any nudity depicted in it would be illegal. Any TV show or movie that even suggests people are having sex (without showing any actual nudity) would be illegal. So, not only would actual pornographic videos on PornHub be illegal, but movies like Jerry Maguire, Basic Instinct… hell anything R-Rated (and a bunch of PG-13 films) would be illegal.

    16. Myrtle_Nut on

      Mike Lee likes to get pegged. I don’t know how I know this, I just do. 

    19. ViciousKnids on

      You know, porn sites *did* have banner ads saying Republicans wanted to ban porn. Weird. I wonder why they thought that.

    20. 90403scompany on

      >I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called „Bring Back the Porn!“

      Perry Cox, *Scrubs s3e4*

    22. Cheetotiki on

      Ah, the party of individual freedom and small government in action again…

    23. TintedApostle on

      „Isn’t it a famous old story that the man who has to read all the pornography in order to decide what’s fit to be passed and what’s fit not to be, is the man most likely to be debauched?“

      – Christopher Hitchens – On Free Speech

    25. Lakerdog1970 on

      All these religious conservative Republican dudes are just closeted gay men who are angry at the world because their hang ups prevent them from living their best life….so they try to ruin everyone else’s good time and always request the male masseuse.

    28. guyonlinepgh on

      They know this won’t pass. It’s to look good to certain people, like they’re doing something about the corruption of society. It’s also a strategy of just chipping away, chip chip chip, not getting everything they want but whittling away our freedoms piece by piece.

    29. habu-sr71 on

      Wow. In an era where pretty much every adult has a tool on their person every waking moment that could start creating and electronically publishing still and motion pornography within seconds.

      Sounds like a great way to create criminals for the christofascists to persecute and imprison.

    30. Mormammon on

      This coming from a guy whose religion was founded by a married guy that got caught banging a 16 year old in a barn, then went on to marry at least 32 women, 7 of them teenagers as young as 15.

    32. HappySpam on

      I’m glad they’re working on issues that matter like this and literally nothing else.

    34. Mulchpuppy on

      The wording has a real strong „I don’t know what pornography is, but I know it when I see it!“ vibe which is a really, really dangerous game to play with these people.

    35. dasmarian on

      No birth control. No porn. Spread em ladies, you’re gonna be baby machines so America can have that cheap supply of labor in the sweatshops.

    36. MinimumApricot365 on

      The quiet part is that LGBTQ representation is often considered to be pornographic by the religious right.

    38. Green_thumb_arts on

      And what exactly is pornography? A man and a woman railing each other? Two gay people holding hands? Two gay people having sex? A woman in a bikini? Michelangelo’s David? A drawing of a girl in a swimsuit? A drawing of a girl in jeans?

      You all know good and well what purpose this has, and it has nothing to do with porn. This is a ploy to label anything they don’t like as obscene. It serves only to take away freedom of expression by saying it is evil.

    39. WetBandit06 on

      Their king cheated on his wife with a pornstar. These people are delusional.

    41. ki3fdab33f on

      Everyone is missing the forest for the trees. This is not about getting rid of porn. It’s right there in the name of the bill. They want to legally, constitutionally redefine what is considered obscene. They will use this to label anyone or anything they consider a threat as pornographic. Trans people. Gay people. They’re trying to legislate away the LGBTQ community’s right to exist.

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