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Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers
- 1970-01-01 1y ago[flagged]
- _l4jv 1y ago[dead]
- commandersaki 1y agoYeah sure one thing is banning porn, but then there's this little nugget: The bill's sponsors are also pushing for violators of the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act to register as sex offenders.
- vrosas 1y agoThe point is to dehumanize those who oppose them, and putting someone on a sex offender registry, in jail, and hitting them with crippling debt is a sure fire way to do it, even if it’s thrown out in court later.
- adamredwoods 1y ago>> Earlier this year, he said porn and human trafficking were linked, adding that "shutting down the porn industry would be a crushing blow to the human trafficking industry." I doubt this logic, but open to arguments, as I'm not an expert.
- k310 1y agoThe law of unintended consequences says that people would find other outlets, namely incest and rape. Oh, and human trafficking. Smart thinking there. Poor fellow. > Well, I first became aware of it during the physical act of love. > Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. > Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. > Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred. > Women sense my power and they seek the life essence. > I do not avoid women. But I do deny them my essence. Dr. Strangelove
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- IlikeKitties 1y agoHis Wikipedia Page is something to behold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Schriver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Schriver > During his tenure in the Michigan legislature, he has called for a ban on hormonal birth control,[3] pornography,[4][5] same-sex marriage and gender-affirming care for adults,[6] as well as promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.[7] And please take a look at the picture. It's something else.
- Cheer2171 1y agoI was expecting an octogenarian. He's 33 years young.
- vrosas 1y ago> Schriver has stated that he believes pornography "harms all who come into contact with it" and has publicly compared its use to that of heroin. You can tell what this dude’s problem is..
- teaearlgraycold 1y agoI haven’t seen someone tell on themself this hard since Shapiro claimed there’s no such thing as WAP.
- busyant 1y ago> You can tell what this dude’s problem is.. You know... my wife and I have repeatedly asked my mother-in-law (who lives with us) to not purchase junk food because--even though she has no problem eating it in moderation--we have a hard time doing so if it's just lying around the house. Maybe we should talk to our state legislator!
- mystraline 1y ago
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoI wonder... Do those folks take an oath of office to uphold the Constitution? Because that whole thing is unamerican.
- FranzFerdiNaN 1y agoThey're conservatives, so they dont care about rules and laws. Thats their entire world view: rules are for others, protections are for them.
- mock-possum 1y ago“There must be two groups, an in-group which laws protect but do not bind, and an out-group which laws bind but do not protect.”
- runako 1y agoIn addition to the headline, this bill would also criminalize such popular movies as Hairspray, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Tootsie, for which Dustin Hoffman won a Golden Globe. (And quite obviously a fair bit of music videos and general entertainment industry content would also become illegal.) >> The bill also includes a section that takes aim at transgender individuals by prohibiting material "that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex."
- bigyabai 1y agoThe government can take my VHS copy of The Nutty Professor from my cold, dead hands. It won an Academy Award!
- rented_mule 1y agoSo, for example, Viola / Cesario in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Who needs great literature? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_(Twelfth_Night) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_(Twelfth_Night) And regarding "the other biological sex"... It is not at all simple to define biological gender in a such a way that there are only two of them. Genitalia, hormones, and chromosome patterns are far from sufficient. In many cases, the gender assigned at birth is arbitrary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
- defrost 1y ago> It is not at all simple to define biological gender in a such a way that there are only two of them. It's ridiculously easy to do so, and commonly done .. the catch is that it's not all encompassing enough to cover all human births. Richard Dawkins frequently weasel words his responses, clearly stating that there are only two reproductive (human) sexes ... Obviously that doesn't cover all the human biological forms that are birthed, nor even does it cover the stages and ages of common human lives .. but it's easy and gets a lot of play.
- FranzFerdiNaN 1y ago
- greyface- 1y agoThe bill's text: https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintroduced/House/htm/2025-HIB-4938.htm https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintro...
- tamimio 1y ago> 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. So I assume this will also include OF, dark romance books, online blogs, shared texts in group chats?
- micahdeath 1y agoDoes this mean that a spouses Facebook page is illegal if they are cute?
- alskdu9 1y agoThe guy proposing it is a Christian Nationalist who also wants to ban birth control and have the state teach 6th graders how to use guns. [1] This is first bill I've seen target (erotic) ASMR. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Schriver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Schriver [2] https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintroduced/House/pdf/2025-HIB-4938.pdf https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintro...
- gurumeditations 1y agoThe Republican Party proposed it
- autoexec 1y agoOf course! Nothing says "small government" like going through every person's internet history and DVD collection to find things they personally don't like and making people a criminal because of them.
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- system2 1y agoGoogle ads for Michigan area VPN keywords will skyrocket that's for sure.
- autoexec 1y agoOnly a matter of time before they outlaw VPNs.
- galaxy_gas 1y agoUse/distribution of any VPN tool is 100-500k penalty per
- system2 1y agoDamn..
- tomhow 1y agoWe'll let the normal penalties pull this off the front page, because there are countless laws proposed by activist lawmakers, very few of which ultimately make it into law. HN has always preferred to wait until something is actually passed into law before considering it worthy of front page time here.
- giraffe_lady 1y agoYou're so unprepared for the emerging political reality in the US it almost looks intentional.
- tomhow 1y agoThe rest of the internet can cover this stuff just fine. We don't need to let eternally attention-hungry politicians be the reason to drag HN away from its purpose for existing.
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- giraffe_lady 1y agoWhat would be the reason to drag HN away from its purpose for existing? If the answer is "nothing" it's a ready-made propaganda outfit.
- tomhow 1y agoHN's reason for existing is to discuss "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", and "anything that good hackers would find interesting", and things that involve "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon". It's right there at the start of the guidelines and it's always what we use to judge what content is on topic or off topic. That's been constant from the beginning. It excludes "daily political rage bait" for the important reason that most of the rest of the internet is dominated by that stuff and we think it's important that there's one corner of the internet that isn't quite so dominated by it.
- amarant 1y agoHandmaid's tale looking more prophetic by the day! Positively clearvoyant!
- givemeethekeys 1y agoHow will they enforce this?
- jmpz 1y agoIt says right there in the article: "The bill would require internet service providers in Michigan to use filters to prevent people from seeing the prohibited material. " VPNs do exist, but still.
- OutOfHere 1y agoDo people not realize that something is seriously wrong with Hacker News when all exposes of the bad actions of the Republican Party immediately get flagged? What is dang doing about it? I think article flagging should be removed altogether, replaced by automatic flagging when it has -5 points. If Michigan's proposal were to become law, it would have extreme repercussions on the tech industry to block off Michigan.
- OutOfHere 1y agoAny person who says he answers to Jesus Christ alone is wholly unsuitable for being a politician. (As per his Wikipedia article, he does.)
- KevinMS 1y agowoods porn is back in Michigan
- palmotea 1y agoClickbait. This bill is going nowhere, it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell.
- krapp 1y agoI don't know, Hell seems pretty cold lately.
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