Porn to become a crime under the proposed GOP bill

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The Interstate -Bszönität -definition law would add all pornography, including any representation of sexual actions, the “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value” in order to end the definition of obscenity. This would make it illegal to distribute or consume porn, regardless of the intention of the material. At the moment, only porn is illegal to abuse, threaten or harass someone.

Rep. Mary Miller, R-ILL, who also had the new proposal, said that she would equip the law enforcement with the tools you need to aim and remove obscene material from the Internet, which is alarming destructive and far outside the boundaries of the protected language under the constitution. “

The police are “authorized” to act against porn: Lee

The proposed action would define “obscene” as content:

• Appeal to an excessive amount of interest in nudity or gender
• Shows or describes real or false sexual actions
• Lack of scientific, political, artistic or literary value

The law would also eliminate the “intention” requirement, which only prohibits the transfer of obscenity for the purposes [of] A person abuses, threatened or harassed, ”says a release from Lee's office.

The Interstate Nobscent Definition Act would actually expand the scope of obscene, which are defined by Jacobellis against Ohio and Miller against California, which formed the current American definition of the word.

Potential problems when banning pornography

With the Emory University School of Law, Thomas C. Arthur wrote about the potential problems that could result from the ban on “obscene material” in the Emory Law Journal. In his newspaper he wrote:

“Firstly, 'obscene' pornography is difficult, if not impossible, to define satisfactorily according to basic principles of the first change. The current definition is not almost the achievement of the materials that allegedly corrupt the moral tone of society, the health of relationships and the status of women.”

Arthur also believes that the ban on porn could cause freedom of expression to be restricted as a whole.

According to Lee, obscenity is not protected after the first change and adds that some legal definitions have brought “extreme pornography” to the reach of children: “Our law updates the legal definition of obscene for the Internet age so that this content can be removed.”

Project 2025 urges porn ban

The law was promoted by project in 2025, a conservative policy plan that was written before President Donald Trump's second term. The 2025 project, which is over 900 pages, reported that “pornography should be banned”. It also means that “the people who produce and distribute it are locked up” and companies that “facilitate their spread” should be closed.

The lawyer of the adult industry, Corey D. Silverstein, spoke to Mashable about the proposed law. He said, “It can just as well be a complete ban on pornography.”

Ricci Levy, President and CEO of the non -profit Woodhull Freedom Foundation of sexual freedom, to Mashable said that legislators, if they look at the broad image of censorship, try to make the political proposals of project in 2025 in a law.