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Donald Trump's election win could lead to porn being banned

www.newsweek.com Donald Trump's election win could lead to porn being banned

Donald Trump's victory could lead to porn being banned, as it is a key agenda item of Project 2025, the conservative manifesto for a Republican presidency.

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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First president to make pictures of his current wife illegal
registered sex offender status for educators distributing it

If a book in your classroom or school library has anything beyond a heterosexual peck on the cheek, congratulations, you're now a sex offender. Not a joke.
I hope they actually do it. This is like the abortion issue, if they actually go through with it people will be like "What?? How could this happen??"
Historically speaking people have two things they riot for, safety and comfort. How that comfort manifest varies but pornography is definitely on the same level as whiskey, and the United states has had a rebellion on that.
The porn ban will just be the excuse they use to crack down on VPNs so they can implement a full on Chinese style internet censorship program.
Oh man do I ever hope they ban porn in the US. That would be fucking hilarious.
People who voted for Trump after he won:

The same people after he declare porn illegal.
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.
Do it.

Fuck around and find out.

The sad thing is, the nation will care more about porn than abortion rights. 🤦‍♂️
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.
So? The president is a felon. Crime is legal.
We're back to 1920s. Mafia will bootleg porn from Mexico and Canada.
And again, the US totally failed to learn from history. This time, even their own history. Do you actually have history classes in school, or has this been replaced by "American" "football" or "Cheerleading" classes already?

Hint: I'm talking about 1920 to 1933, when organized crime in the US was thriving like mad due to a similar stupid idea. This time, it won't be any better. Keywords: Volstead Act and Cullen-Harrison Act
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.
First, they came for the trans people* and I did nothing because I am not trans.
Then they came for the immigrants and I did nothing because I am not an immigrant.
Then they came for women's rights and I did nothing because I am not a woman.
Then they came for the... wait, what? Hold up!

* They came really hard for the trans people. Like strangely hard. Like they had some kind of fixation.
Time to start stockpiling.
I mean invest in VPN stocks then?
If you don't have access to a good VPN (one based outside of the US) and a separate thumb drive for TailsOS, I suggest getting both and learning how to use them before it becomes a lot more difficult to do so
Download all the porn right now before it gets banned
No porn star can sue you if there's no porn star
The Americans can choose between Vlad's Russia, CCP China, 1979 Iran and All of the Above. WTF, the fucking Nazis did not ban porn.
The incels fucked around and will find out.
This, I believe will be the very least of our problems.
Good luck! Literally all his fan base are probably rabid porn junkies.
I guess I gotta do my part and jack off twice a day or more to get the best of the porn we still have.
Do you want angry fat basement dwellers to rise up? Take away their porn. Let's see how this plays out.
And watch the GDP of the country fall by trillions.
They're doing their own version of Iranian revolution aren't they.
Cannot wait for black market porn. lmao
I have a couple friends that already distribute.
This would be the one thing that would cause a shift.
VPN sponsor spots are going to contain a lot of eyebrow wiggling with references to censored content
Its already psuedo-banned in some states, not outright, but PornHub and others are blocked in a number of states.

You could probably take an educated guess as to which states with nearly 100% accuracy.

It was their trial run, now they want to deploy that nationwide, incrementally chipping away at it.
*will
Literally the last thing I'm worried about in this presidency.
Downloading intensifies
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.

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