Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers. (Fox2, Detroit)

[usonian]

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/total-porn-ban-proposed-michigan-lawmakers

adults and children.
Well, that solves the "age verification" problem.

Look up "unintended consequences" if you will.
Reminder, this is only a proposal, referred to committee.

LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) - Michigan lawmakers proposed a bill last week banning porn.

House Bill 4938, called the "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act," would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts. The bill breaks down the types of acts covered, including intercourse and masturbation.

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."

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The bill would require internet service providers in Michigan to use filters to prevent people from seeing the prohibited material.

If the bill were to become law, violators could be looking at prison time or hefty fines. Distributing the prohibited material or making it available online would carry a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and/or a $100,000 fine. If more than 100 pieces of prohibited material are involved, that penalty jumps to 25 years in prison and/or a fine up to $125,000.

What's next:

The bill was referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
No meetings have been scheduled for the committee to review the proposed law.
Perhaps some sessions to review material in question?

ETA: spirited discussion on Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255921

[msongs]

1. does that include melania nt

[Irish_Dem]

7. When a gold digging ho makes good, she starts calling herself a model.

[Srkdqltr]

2. Is that possible? Or magical thinking?

[usonian]

3. Well, they could have a contest instead of a lottery. "Master of your domain"

[ImNotGod]

4. Its official name is the religious nuts wishful thinking bill, nt

[spooky3]

6. They're the biggest consumers of it. Nt

[marble falls]

5. Right. I don't care for porn, so I don't go looking for it. Besides the SCOTUS won't permit that law ...

... it's ruled against it many times.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Why is the GOP so darn obsessed with sex?

[usonian]

9. Every accusation is a confession.

I grew up Catholic. You probably did, too. (Irish Dem? sure).

And you know the consequences of their policies.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yep MAGA cult is highly repressed.

And acts it out all the time.

Ha yes raised Catholic. What else in an Irish family.

[Deuxcents]

11. I remember the Moral Majority tried this years ago and found out ya can't legislate morality

We used to say the moral majority is not moral or the majority

[usonian]

12. Churches found long ago that mandated morality is a means of control.

One of many. But the leaders are exempt. No need to give examples.

Every accusation is a confession. Good people are enablers, uplifters and examples.

Small shits want to control, cut down and be exempt from all rules (OK, "privilege" )

Never changes.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. The sponsors want to restrict porn so they are the only ones who can see it

In the name of regulation, of course!