Posted on 01/15/2025 5:09:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — Thanks to the internet and smartphones, children today have instant access to vast amounts of online pornography, much of it graphic, violent and degrading, Texas state attorneys told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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One interesting story. In Christianity Today (I don’t subscribe or like it) they ran a story about a minister who was assigned to attack porn for its harm.
He acquainted himself with online porn for the first time in his life and then became totally addicted to it himself.
Much later article: (61% of Americans regularly view now).
More Christians Are Watching Porn, But Fewer Think It’s a Problem By Maria Baer.
Ministries expand to reach the 54 percent of churchgoers who say they view online pornography.
The BOR applies to the states…an issue settled long ago and constantly reaffirmed. It will never be reversed.
Freedom of speech does not cover propogating whatever you want to minors.
Since child pornography is illegal (as it should be), the inverse should also be illegal. If one desires to look at smut, one should prove their age of majority.
Each state should decide this. I believe this is a reasonable limitation to the 1st Amendment. Pornography damages young men’s and boy’s minds and they grow up to be cognitively and socially damaged due to its destructive and addictive power.
According to male dancers, plenty of “good married women” and bachelorettes sexually cheat in their parties. Extremely common.
Roe v. Wade was also once “settled” law. It was reversed.
Again... this isn’t about porn.
This is about destroying anonymity on the internet. Requiring an ID to use the internet and therefore destroying free speech on the internet when they want to control the narrative next time.
One small step toward the total surveillance state.
Odd that some people don’t understand that.
Just wait until they come up with glasses that will see through clothes. Only a matter of time.
Impossible to enforce without a raid on family house and catching children watching porn red handed.
Congress critters are known to be users of porn.
You just have to sign up with Democrat sites, or other liberal sites, to know what they are up to. Sign up and just lurk and don’t participate so you don’t get yourself banned.
They wanted Christians to pass laws against pornography, because they were planning on using those laws to ban the Bible. That’s why all sorts of porn just suddenly appeared in schools, because they wanted that reactionary response.
One of Alinsky’s rules is to make your enemy live up to his principles in the most stringent way possible so he will fail and his principles impossible to keep.
How about leaving it for the parents to decide? FYI: YHE 10th Amendment does not override the 1st, 2nd, or any other provision in the Bill of Rights.
If Texas can demand age verification for porn (which is sadly just free speech under past precedent) because it’s “dangerous”, then California can demand age verification for sites like Freerepublic as “dangerous”.
The government is a crappy parent.
It’s the parents’ job to monitor this and raise their children correctly.
Women cheat more than men. Stats bear this out, but women are better at hiding it because they generally have better access to opportunities.
Exactly. And unlike speech and expression, the the Constitution does not reference alcohol, tobacco, gambling, or abortion.
“Just wait until they come up with glasses that will see through clothes. Only a matter of time.”
Sone came out with a camera that had an infrared lens and it functioned exactly like that because the heat signatures off the body gave too much detail.
https://fossbytes.com/sony-accidentally-launched-camcorders-see-peoples-clothes/
Fair enough. The BOR issue has a lot more going for it than Roe did. Regardless, i hope you don’t get your wish- I’m a big 1A and 2A fan.
Only the FBI will be allowed to have them...sarc
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