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submitted 21 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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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[-] babybus@sh.itjust.works 27 points 19 hours ago

We're back to 1920s. Mafia will bootleg porn from Mexico and Canada.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

And of course they will use it as an excuse to implement complete surveillance on all your devices.

[-] dborba@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Excellent - maybe we will all kick our* cell phone addiction

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 29 points 19 hours ago

Least important effect of a Trump presidency - but I'm sure if he did this it'd be the straw that broke the camel's back for Gen Z Trumpers.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

Nah, genZ are apparently prudes. They have less sex and apparently don't like fan service in media. Puritanism and teetotaling is the new counterculture.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago

The one thing this election has all but confirmed for me is that over half of the country supports these things unabashedly, and I highly doubt porn will be the hero that magically changes these people. It's already banned in multiple conservative states, and all of them just voted red again.

Honestly, I believe that if the Trump admin brought back prohibition, his bootlickers would be the first in line telling us how it's the best idea ever.

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[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago

Then maybe they should have known that Project 2025 called for that before they decided to vote for Trump.

Violence against women is about to skyrocket when the incels can't get a date because they're too repulsive and can't watch porn to take out their sexual frustrations because of what they voted for.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 22 points 17 hours ago

Then maybe they should have known that Project 2025 called for that before they decided to vote for Trump.

Those kids would be very angry if they could read

[-] 3dogsinatrenchcoat@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago

Not least important when you think about how they define "porn"

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[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 37 points 21 hours ago

Hilarious. As if this could ever actually be instituted nationwide. Regulations on sale and access maybe, but moral crusades like this are perpetually doomed to failure, much like the War on Drugs.

Doesn't mean they won't try, won't posture, won't grandstand about it, but to actually succeed in this goal when over 50% of the populace isn't going to be behind it? I guess we'll just have to watch them try.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 84 points 20 hours ago

It's not to try and ban porn

It's a way to snoop on all Internet traffic.

Like cops "smelling weed" anytime they want to hassle someone. If they don't like a person, they'll spy on their Internet usage, obviously find some kind of porn, and then make a public spectacle out of to distract from what they're mad at that person for.

They don't care about the crime, they want an excuse to investigate people they don't like.

Say something mean on twitter, and they'll search your IP till they find something they can call porn.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They'll say they're gonna ban it and when there's uproar they'll say to "protect the kids" you need a digital ID to access porn. Then they'll expand it to everything, ban VPN's, encryption and there will be no more privacy. Big brother is watching, and if he deems you too woke, for whatever arbitrary reason, you're off to the gulag.

[-] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 19 points 19 hours ago

Sadly people won't react before it's too late because " it will never happen here ! " and till then we think like that because "conspiration"

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Every fascist takeover starts with "Oh, you're just overreacting."

Everyone, remember these six words:

HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago

It's also the pretext for a pogrom against LGBTQ, whose existence in public will be redefined as "pornographic."

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

And to be clear, this isn't supposition, it's already literally happening in Florida.

Florida is the model for what they want to do everywhere.

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[-] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 13 hours ago

They don't care about total enforcement. They'll just use it against their enemies and people they want to take down while protecting their own. Rules for thee etc

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 12 hours ago

This is what people don't seem to grasp about fascism... It doesn't matter. None of the rules or social mores that you've known since you were born will matter anymore.

People need to read some history books, this has happened before. We aren't special, it is already happening here.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 points 15 hours ago

Strange comparison. The war on drugs wrecked so many lives, and hasn't really ended, just cooled off a little. I don't see that as a cause for optimism.

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[-] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 22 points 20 hours ago

Italy greets you with its piracy shield.

Can they actuate such measures? Of course they can, look at Italy. Is it realistic? Well, that depends on how stupid they are. Italy has blocked google trying to ban piracy and the "shield" is easily avoided with a vpn, but hey, they are trying.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

The internet was designed to be resilient and route around damage.

Censorship is 'damage'

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