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Michigan's Anticorruption of Public Morals Act Could Ban VPNs(reason.com)
17 points by miohtama 20 hours ago | 6 comments
sasper 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is a silly piece of legislation written by Republican partisan hacks in the Michigan House. It has no chance of clearing the Democratic-led Senate (19–18 with one vacancy) or the Governor’s desk. Even if it did, it wouldn't pass First Amendment scrutiny. They are trying to criminalize ASMR, written erotica, or depictions of trans people which is unconstitutionally vague. At best, this is a messaging bill meant to rally the GOP base, not a serious attempt at lawmaking.

nativeit 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wait, people talking softly while collating papers is considered “pornography” by these weirdos? Even the Puritans would call this a little much.

Last I heard (and I feel like this is prob apocryphal) the primary consumer of trans pornography is conservative men. Considering the history of GOP politicians who supported hateful legislation against homosexuals who also solicited anonymous homosexual encounters in airport bathrooms (or exploited their congressional pages, or who tend to hire male escorts at every CPAC/GOP convention, et al), maybe there’s something to that?

add-sub-mul-div 19 hours ago | parent [-]

> Wait, people talking softly while collating papers is considered “pornography” by these weirdos?

They're afraid of anything they don't understand

> Last I heard (and I feel like this is prob apocryphal) the primary consumer of trans pornography is conservative men.

and that includes themselves.

casey2 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

B:It's exactly this kind of disrespect shown to lauded members of public office that is tearing this country apart. We need a great moral correction if we want to succeed as a nation. What good does pornography do for our nation other than alienate wives from their husbands, girls from their boyfriends, brother and sisters? The left has trampled on free expression for so long now that such a backlash will be tolerated by the courts.

cvz 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Sadly, American politics are so absurd now that some people won't recognize you're joking

bubbajones 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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