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You have to hand it to them: GOP needs to limit porn

Editorial Board Published May 9, 2025
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A pair of congressional Republicans have launched new laws that will enlist the federal authorities within the newest goal within the conservative conflict in opposition to free speech: banning on-line porn.

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois are behind the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act. The regulation would redefine obscenity as it’s presently outlined on the federal stage by the Communications Act of 1934 and amend the 1973 Supreme Courtroom choice defining pornography often known as the “Miller Test.” It is a three-pronged check to determine if one thing is obscene: Does the fabric enchantment to prurient pursuits, is it patently offensive, and does it lack critical worth?

“Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children,” Lee advised the conservative Every day Caller.

Sarcastically, the Republicans are presenting their laws as a measure to guard youngsters however gave an unique advance preview of the invoice to the Every day Caller. The Every day Caller has been infamous over time for making gentle of kid sexual abuse (when it isn’t publishing white supremacists or conspiracy theories).

The GOP invoice would redefine the federal definition of obscenity and activity federal officers with shutting down the transmission of porn throughout state traces.

The federal courts have historically discovered that pornography is constitutionally protected free speech beneath the First Modification, and that transmitting content material over state traces doesn’t set off requirements surrounding “obscenity.”

However the proposed regulation is consistent with ongoing Republican assaults on free speech.


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Going after porn was additionally a part of Mission 2025, the conservative plan pulled collectively by Trump administration alumni and the right-wing Heritage Basis. In the course of the 2024 presidential marketing campaign, representatives of the grownup movie business financed a “Hands Off My Porn” marketing campaign to coach the general public of the deliberate assaults on porn.

Along with fulfilling the Mission 2025 goal, the laws raises additional questions on why porn is being focused.

Attacking the business that was the supply of so many complications for Trump could be consistent with the pro-Trump observe document of Lee and Miller. By going after the First Modification once more, congressional Republicans would hit two birds with one stone.

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