• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    American Taliban.

    Simple as that.

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

    American Taliban.

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

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      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

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      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)

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        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.

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    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.
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      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.

      Also, abolish Michigan !

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

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

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

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    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.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    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?

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      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.

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      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?

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        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.

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      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.

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      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.