What is the Porn Ban really about?
Proposed Changes to the obscenity laws will be a disaster for free speech.
Republican Senator Mike Lee just proposed a bill to criminalize porn in America. While that might speak to a certain puritanical strain of Texas evangelicals and Utah Mormons, the actual language of the bill is downright oppressive. Unlike the previous standard that suggested a standard based on whatever the norms are at the moment, Lee—a devout mormon…
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