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>The law applies to websites in which more than one-third of the content "is sexual material harmful to minors."

by 0cVlTeIATBs 3y ago

kstrauser 3y ago
How is “harmful to minors” defined here?
- yau8edq12i 3y ago
  https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H.htm https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H... > (6) "Sexual material harmful to minors" includes any material that: > (A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest; > (B) in a manner patently offensive with respect to minors, exploits, is devoted to, or principally consists of descriptions of actual, simulated, or animated display or depiction of: > (i) a person's pubic hair, anus, or genitals or the nipple of the female breast; > (ii) touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals; or > (iii) sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act; and > (C) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
  - quesera 3y ago
    This is, obviously, garbage. As with all "offensiveness" laws.
  - drewbug01 3y ago
    > designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest This is the part that really concerns me, to be honest. The main meaning of "prurient" is "characterized by an inordinate interest in sex." The main reason this concerns me is because some people believe LGBTQ issues to be inherently sexual; and thus this law could be used to suppress general LGBTQ content as well as pornography. It depends on who enforces it and who interprets it, of course. But when you consider it in light of the hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills filed this year alone, it just worries me.

>The law applies to websites in which more than one-third of the content "is sexual material harmful to minors."

kstrauser 3y ago

How is “harmful to minors” defined here?

yau8edq12i 3y ago
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H.htm https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H... > (6) "Sexual material harmful to minors" includes any material that: > (A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest; > (B) in a manner patently offensive with respect to minors, exploits, is devoted to, or principally consists of descriptions of actual, simulated, or animated display or depiction of: > (i) a person's pubic hair, anus, or genitals or the nipple of the female breast; > (ii) touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals; or > (iii) sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act; and > (C) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
- quesera 3y ago
  This is, obviously, garbage. As with all "offensiveness" laws.
- drewbug01 3y ago
  > designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest This is the part that really concerns me, to be honest. The main meaning of "prurient" is "characterized by an inordinate interest in sex." The main reason this concerns me is because some people believe LGBTQ issues to be inherently sexual; and thus this law could be used to suppress general LGBTQ content as well as pornography. It depends on who enforces it and who interprets it, of course. But when you consider it in light of the hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills filed this year alone, it just worries me.