Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which would effectively criminalize all pornography nationwide by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. For years, “obscenity” has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech that remains unprotected by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass virtually all visual representations of sex.
According to the bill text, “a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction” of any media that “appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion” would be considered criminal. In other words, if you have an old VHS tape of some Cinemax-style smut stashed away in your garage, you could, under this law, be considered to be harboring deeply illicit materials.
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I agree with this bill, depending on how and on whom it is applied. If it outlaws under 18 year Olds I agree but how will they enforce such laws?
Sounds like a Senator has a nasty porn addiction and hates himself for it. He’s figured that if it was just all illegal then he wouldn’t be able to watch it anymore and his problem will be solved. Like the closeted gay Senator voting against gay rights.
His proposed bill is an overreach of 1st Amendment Rights. Previous overreaches (cough: 18A and Volstead Act) only had people turning to less legal ways of getting their fix. If his bill somehow passes Congress and gets passed into law, the sheer number of people indicted for “internet porn” will shoot through the roof. Frankly, Lee is a moron for dredging WAY down to appease the most puritanical, ultra fundamentalist of religious zealots.
I don’t usually like to comment like I use too but whats legal carrying a gun with a permit or reading some slanderous comments today or did someone forget to notify Playboy and Hustler about this new proposal. Talk about manipulation via internet to provoke others with some internet ruse called the sex sting operations. Either government is playing wicked or doing the evil to snare others in all this registry or we all need to go back to the facts of life and Christian understanding. Provoking someone is provoking whether by internet ruse or in person. Their is a right way and a wrong way for everything under the sun.
So whats legal in setting up someone on the internet or do LE have any true values today. Its the vain challenge of most all this registry ruse.Talk about guilt by deception.