Republicans, I hope you like rape.

[Loren Pechtel]

Republican Platform, Project 2025 Co-Author Admits Pornography Ban Will Be Done 'From the Back Door'

Former Donald Trump staffer and Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought told undercover reporters last month that the Heritage Foundation-led initiative has entered its second, more secretive phase with different tactics, including banning pornography “from the back door” through age verification...

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They're planning to ban porn. Legalizing porn cut the rape rate by about 85%. If it was actually removed there's no reason to think that wouldn't be reversed.

 

[Derec]

May be why JD Vance is now less popular with men than with women.
JD Vance Is Less Popular With Men Than Women, New Poll Shows

It may not be too late for Trump to drop him like he's hot.

 

[laughing dog]

LOL at a porn star fanboy banning porn.

 

[thebeave]

I wonder if the use of the phrase "through the back door" in the article was intentional or not.

Good luck banning porn at this point. You're not going to be able to push the toothpaste back in the tube lotion back in the bottle. No matter what HF tries, someone will find a way around it. Last I heard, porn is number one in terms of internet traffic, so it will not go down quietly. I do admit I have problems with minors being exposed to internet pornography, though.

 

[thebeave]

Republican Platform, Project 2025 Co-Author Admits Pornography Ban Will Be Done 'From the Back Door'

Former Donald Trump staffer and Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought told undercover reporters last month that the Heritage Foundation-led initiative has entered its second, more secretive phase with different tactics, including banning pornography “from the back door” through age verification...

www.xbiz.com

They're planning to ban porn. Legalizing porn cut the rape rate by about 85%. If it was actually removed there's no reason to think that wouldn't be reversed.

Are you sure about the 85% number? That seems high to me. While reducing rape is certainly a positive side effect of widespread porn, I suspect it has a lot to do also with declining marital (and birth rates), which is going to be causing pretty serious problems soon.

 

[Toni]

I wonder if the use of the phrase "through the back door" in the article was intentional or not.

Good luck banning porn at this point. You're not going to be able to push the toothpaste back in the tube lotion back in the bottle. No matter what HF tries, someone will find a way around it. Last I heard, porn is number one in terms of internet traffic, so it will not go down quietly. I do admit I have problems with minors being exposed to internet pornography, though.

Lube. The word you meant was lube as in lube in a tube.

 

[thebeave]

I wonder if the use of the phrase "through the back door" in the article was intentional or not.

Good luck banning porn at this point. You're not going to be able to push the toothpaste back in the tube lotion back in the bottle. No matter what HF tries, someone will find a way around it. Last I heard, porn is number one in terms of internet traffic, so it will not go down quietly. I do admit I have problems with minors being exposed to internet pornography, though.

Lube. The word you meant was lube as in lube in a tube.

Yeah. I like your way better.

 

[ideologyhunter]

It has always been in the Repubs' power to destroy porn. You want to end porn, forever? Have Marjorie Taylor Greene do a bukkake video with Trump Sr. and Jr., Ted Cruz, J D Vance, Mattie Gaetz -- and Mitch McConnell, watching.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I wonder if the use of the phrase "through the back door" in the article was intentional or not.

Good luck banning porn at this point. You're not going to be able to push the toothpaste back in the tube lotion back in the bottle. No matter what HF tries, someone will find a way around it. Last I heard, porn is number one in terms of internet traffic, so it will not go down quietly. I do admit I have problems with minors being exposed to internet pornography, though.

It is adorable that you think the party you've supported was ever for freedom and against Government intrusion into the home.

You think they can force women to give birth but can't set controls on media?

 

[thebeave]

It has always been in the Repubs' power to destroy porn. You want to end porn, forever? Have Marjorie Taylor Greene do a bukkake video with Trump Sr. and Jr., Ted Cruz, J D Vance, Mattie Gaetz -- and Mitch McConnell, watching.

MTG could always use a bukkake shield though. You newbies to this forum will not understand how important that was to certain threads from long ago...

 

[Politesse]

I'm pretty sure the internet is for porn.

 

[Old Woman in Purple]

Avenue Q agrees with you.

 

[Jarhyn]

I'm pretty sure the internet is for porn.

Grab your dick and double click!

 

[thebeave]

I wonder if the use of the phrase "through the back door" in the article was intentional or not.

Good luck banning porn at this point. You're not going to be able to push the toothpaste back in the tube lotion back in the bottle. No matter what HF tries, someone will find a way around it. Last I heard, porn is number one in terms of internet traffic, so it will not go down quietly. I do admit I have problems with minors being exposed to internet pornography, though.

It is adorable that you think the party you've supported was ever for freedom and against Government intrusion into the home.

You think they can force women to give birth but can't set controls on media?

Which party are you talking about?

 

[bilby]

In order to ban porn, it would be necessary to switch off the internet.

Of course, the majority of GOP voters would be happy with a total ban on pornographic magazines and videocassettes, which would also be of minimal impact to modern consumers or producers of porn.

It would contravene the first amendment, but it would be very popular with the angry old evangelical demographic (who could then fap to the idea that they have finally ended porn), and would harm almost nobody.

 

[Jarhyn]

So, I know this is going to be something folks would disagree with, but I don't think we should allow kids on the internet unsupervised at all.

I think that the Internet should be like liquor: you show your ID to get an account, and access should be strictly controlled to the same extent we expect control of liquor cabinets, and we should have class time dedicated to informing people how to use the internet safely, what the dangers are, as well as a discussion about how porn is illusory/inaccurate/misleading, and how any adult trying to distribute it to the likes of them has ulterior motives.

Any account found to have unsupervised child access should end up suspended, with the same seriousness of a DUI. If someone is a repeat offender of letting children on the internet, their access should be limited to work access through a work account, and possibly be jailed.

There should be no website checks for over 18, because everything should be linked back to a (pseudo-anonymous) postal email address, or an email address on a site that requires a backing postal email address while itself, creating a layer of anonymity.

From there, I think websites need about as much additional access control restrictions as a bottle of booze has. Which is to say none, since minors already shouldn't be accessing the internet.

I think that so long as it is not material that depicts someone who cannot or does not consent to be depicted, as long as it is not material that involves violating someone's consent to participate, all material ought be allowed and consumption of that material ought not be tracked publicly. I would model the burden of control almost identically to liquor, where the primary expectation is that kids stay out of the liquor cabinet and seeing that they do is a parent's responsibility/liability, though with the primary access burden designed to disallow tracking/monitoring.

If the Internet is for porn, the internet is NOT for children.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

In order to ban porn, it would be necessary to switch off the internet.

While I don't think this party is going to win, it isn't as if the religious right had little influence on media in this country.

Of course, the majority of GOP voters would be happy with a total ban on pornographic magazines and videocassettes, which would also be of minimal impact to modern consumers or producers of porn.

It would contravene the first amendment...

Only until SCOTUS rules otherwise... precedence be damned.

...but it would be very popular with the angry old evangelical demographic (who could then fap to the idea that they have finally ended porn), and would harm almost nobody.

JD Vance is running with this. He isn't old, he isn't an evangelical. America has evolved a new breed of "moral" conservative. JD Vance's appearance on the ticket is troubling in the sense that he is the Project2025 guy. Trump doesn't care about any of this, but Vance is the guy who'd likely be moving stuff around.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I wonder if the use of the phrase "through the back door" in the article was intentional or not.

Good luck banning porn at this point. You're not going to be able to push the toothpaste back in the tube lotion back in the bottle. No matter what HF tries, someone will find a way around it. Last I heard, porn is number one in terms of internet traffic, so it will not go down quietly. I do admit I have problems with minors being exposed to internet pornography, though.

Yeah. VPN + Torrent, it's basically impossible to keep it out of any state I would want to live in.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Republican Platform, Project 2025 Co-Author Admits Pornography Ban Will Be Done 'From the Back Door'

Former Donald Trump staffer and Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought told undercover reporters last month that the Heritage Foundation-led initiative has entered its second, more secretive phase with different tactics, including banning pornography “from the back door” through age verification...

www.xbiz.com

They're planning to ban porn. Legalizing porn cut the rape rate by about 85%. If it was actually removed there's no reason to think that wouldn't be reversed.

Are you sure about the 85% number? That seems high to me. While reducing rape is certainly a positive side effect of widespread porn, I suspect it has a lot to do also with declining marital (and birth rates), which is going to be causing pretty serious problems soon.

I didn't check it in detail. I remembered it was high, the first on-topic and scientific hit I got from my search said 85%.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

It has always been in the Repubs' power to destroy porn. You want to end porn, forever? Have Marjorie Taylor Greene do a bukkake video with Trump Sr. and Jr., Ted Cruz, J D Vance, Mattie Gaetz -- and Mitch McConnell, watching.

Why would that matter? There's stuff out there that most of us consider pretty yucky but it doesn't keep people from watching something else.