So, uh. first of all...Mike Lee can't just wave a magic wand and change the definition of obscenity. That's not how the First Amendment works.
Second, this is a naked attempt to subject the Internet to the censorious whims of the most puritanical community.
https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/5/lee-bill-establishes-obscenity-definition-across-states
Second, this is a naked attempt to subject the Internet to the censorious whims of the most puritanical community.
https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/5/lee-bill-establishes-obscenity-definition-across-states
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No, I won't hold my breath for that answer.
This is all part of Project 2025. See page 5 (& direct attacks on the LGBT community): "Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned."
The Miller test isn't a definition of obscenity. It is a minimum set of requirements any attempt at defining obscenity must satisfy.
I can't imagine it being too popular in a lot of demographics. It mightn't be a great idea to go after porn while your guy is trashing the economy.
The guy who wrote it also wrote an essay where he wants us to be miserable, sick, unable to afford any entertainment, so that quite literally the only escape we have is sex, which with no birth control leads to children.
https://bsky.app/profile/goldengateblond.bsky.social/post/3loli4zr3k225
We wouldn't want anyone accidentally thinking about oh no now I've gone and started thinking about them again. Damn you!
Except that if the courts don't change it back, that's the ball game.
Eviscerating the First Amendment is the first step in destroying the entire republic.
https://bsky.app/profile/novapsyche444.bsky.social/post/3lg6o4o6yss2v
They're trying to rewrite the Constitution so there won't be any 1st Amendment Rights to protect.
Also: Does “obscene wealth” count?
- Adolf Hitler [N-DE]
- Mary Miller [R-IL]
Mike Lee is a persistent POS that will do what he can to censor nsfw content. Though he wasn't fully successful, he did some serious damage in his home state with censorship.