from the the-censorship-police-are-getting-bolder dept

Another senior Trump administration official [Adam Candeub] is gleefully showing off his true colors: The current general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published an opinion column with the Heritage Foundation’s news outlet The Daily Signal calling for stronger obscenity regulation.

[…] Candeub proposes a supposed moral restoration of obscenity laws such that anything viewed through the lens of non-traditional sexual expression could be fair game for legislatures to heavily restrict or outright ban.

[…] Candeub works for the FCC and is backing a legal strategy that’s been used, historically, to aggressively prosecute women, LGBTQ+ individuals, entire communities of color, consensual sex workers, and pornographic and non-pornographic publishers for their speech.

This is the FCC presenting itself as the morality speech police.

  • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    18 hours ago

    “anything viewed through the lens of non-traditional sexual expression” is not about porn. This is clearly an attempt to outlaw existing as LGBTQ. These people believe that being transgender, or even just dressing in a way uncommon for your assigned gender, is a non-traditional sexual expression and that transgender people are perverts for being transgender in public.

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      LGBTQ+ expression is the canary in the coalmine. Once they suffocate that they’ll move on to the next thing: women’s rights, racial justice, political expression that isn’t pro-capitalist.

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    19 hours ago

    Anyone that tries to ban porn should have their hard drives checked.

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      17 hours ago

      Even simpler. Remember when they tried to outlaw alcohol? But smuggling digital goods is far easier to do.

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            13 hours ago

            I feel like this reputation is from people that only have seen Japanese porn from it being posted on American tube site. While that definitely exists; JAV, in general, I’d say, is definitely a lot more likely to focus on the women’s pleasure than the men’s. And the lesbian content is second to none for that.

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    16 hours ago

    Also, I wonder how much the young men that went for conservatives are going to looooove this.

    On the one hand, you have this supposed dating/loneliness crisis. Everything costs more so you can barely afford to get by, never mind spending on recreational things.

    And now, the very idiots you voted for will make it so you cannot even crank one out in peace?

    Way to go, dipshits! Good luck finding that dream tradwife or whatever.

    🤣

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        They are seeing the incoming generations and freaking out because theres not enough WHITE young people. Its the great replacement theory.

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          But if one is to believe the narrative, dating and sex and so on are way down.

          I wonder if these dudes all think that white babies are gonna be made by listening to the bro universe more from their parents’ basement and voting for conservatives even harder.

          Maybe a brave march with your face covered will get the flow of white babies going again…I guess it never occurs to them that maybe treating women with decency almost as if they are human beings and, you know, maybe try talking to them might lead somewhere? Same thing with dropping the far right wing nonsense.

          I mean, most people don’t want to hear the right wing stuff. You’d think they would eventually wise up to the fact that being a right winger is basically spraying woman repellent all over yourself…it’s really hard to sympathize with young men bitching that they cannot find any women to date them when they are doing just about everything possible to make themselves undateable.

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            The amount of repressed misogynistic hate porn out there tells me that there are many people that literally get off on forced female submission.

            Also restricting legal access to what we currently refer to as legal porn is going to cause an explosion of sites that don’t care whether there are abused children on their site.

            That could be the play though, to create this fetid atmosphere and say that’s why we can’t have privacy.

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              Yeah, it will be wild if the Seven Mountain Mandate types get their way - first of all, men are apparently not really asking women out in person. You have dating apps skewing things in crazy ways (apparently; thankfully I’ve never used them and hope I never do). According to stats, young people are not having sex at the rates that they did in the past…

              If the 7MM people get their way, they will: wedge boring xtian content into entertainment that only the most douchey people are going to want to watch. They are going to roll back things like access to cannabis and who knows, maybe alcohol. Everything is so goddamned expensive for so many things anyway. Jobs are a shitshow and many men just don’t have the skills or education. Then you cut off access to porn?

              Young men are going to do what else other than lose their minds? What outlet are they going to have? Video games? Even that may become out of the reach of many, at least for more recent games/hardware…are they just supposed to spiral out on “social” media and Youtube?

              What is 7MM planning to do to substitute in an outlet for youth into the culture? Try to bring back square dancing? Are they going to go to the soda fountains on Main Street?

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                It would make sense because the pursuit of square dancing in the 1940’s in the United States was part of Ford’s agenda to push out the influence of black jazz in schools.

                Also, according to the Country Dance & Song Society, square dancing is only held together by layers of whitewashed black history. The Smithsonian goes further to say that Native American people also influenced the music.

                But, to answer your question, Christian churches do create a community and have events where people hang out, pray, etc. As a child the church I was brought to had outreach events where we handed out food, protested, and we once helped clean up some weird factory building. It’s easier for an org like that to get people to come together. There is guilt for missing service and people constantly ask you to do this thing or that.

                I’m not sure how it would be accomplished, but creating non-religious community centers would be a huge benefit.

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    17 hours ago

    Oh yay, the 2026 version of the Meese Report. Christians and their wet dream of censoring everything to suit their pre-historic beliefs.

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    I wonder at what point all the age verification laws are used as an excuse to do a live video + photo id type of check for virtually everything, starting with porn sites and for VPN access.

    Then, start cracking down on individuals for not watching things that are approved of by the Seven Mountain Mandates type. Sure, they might “allow” straight stuff for a while…until they don’t even allow that.