Have now got the full text of the Stop Comstock Act (for the first time) which is hard to follow if you aren't very familiar with the Act so I am creating a version showing the changes. [thread]
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Instead, there's revisions to both the Comstock Act (§1461. Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter, §1462. Importation or transportation of obscene matters) and to the Tariff Act of 1930 (§1305. Immoral articles; importation prohibited).
The most significant changes are to §1461. Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter—this was due to fears that mailing abortion pills could be criminalized.
This revision substitutes the laundry list of all that Comstock targeted with one item: "obscene materials" 😬
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Instead, there's revisions to both the Comstock Act (§1461. Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter, §1462. Importation or transportation of obscene matters) and to the Tariff Act of 1930 (§1305. Immoral articles; importation prohibited).
This revision substitutes the laundry list of all that Comstock targeted with one item: "obscene materials" 😬
And they are pushing to make sex offenders punishable by death.