Last year, the rightwing think-tank the Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025, which laid out much of the policy blueprint for the current Trump administration. One of the project’s espoused goals was to permanently criminalize all pornography. Now, a Republican senator with kind words for Trump has introduced a bill that would do just that.

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.

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This man’s search history and hard drive are littered with some vile, vile things I’d bet.

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More likely his version of porn is live and forced.

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Well, it starts live…

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And somehow I didn’t think that could have gotten darker…

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Nah, the authoritarian types are usually bottoms. It’s transactional, and consensual.

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Oh, it probably involves anonymous check-ins to hotel rooms, involving attractive young men and methamphetamine.

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His face is fucking obscene. It should be banned nationwide.

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As long as prosecution for politicians caught in motel rooms with twinks and meth applies to them, also.

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Just like Gaetz was!

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As much of horndog as Gaetz was, I have no problem believing he had some twinks, too.

Nothing wrong with that sexually, but his constituents wouldn’t like it…

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Yeah I’m sure they’ll get right on that

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I despise gambling, but I have $5 that says he’s going to be charged with child sex offenses before too long

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I would not bet against that.

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The gamble would have to be the when not if.

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Can we get this on major betting sites? This is easy money some right wing idiot will give 3:1 on

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Whole this is utterly stupid and theocratic as fuck, can I just say that picture that goes to this article just screams “and I’m exaggerating”.

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