In addition to the headline, this bill would also criminalize such popular movies as Hairspray, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Tootsie, for which Dustin Hoffman won a Golden Globe. (And quite obviously a fair bit of music videos and general entertainment industry content would also become illegal.)
>> The bill also includes a section that takes aim at transgender individuals by prohibiting material "that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex."
bigyabai · 1h ago
The government can take my VHS copy of The Nutty Professor from my cold, dead hands. It won an Academy Award!
commandersaki · 1h ago
Yeah sure one thing is banning porn, but then there's this little nugget:
The bill's sponsors are also pushing for violators of the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act to register as sex offenders.
vrosas · 1h ago
The point is to dehumanize those who oppose them, and putting someone on a sex offender registry, in jail, and hitting them with crippling debt is a sure fire way to do it, even if it’s thrown out in court later.
adamredwoods · 37m ago
>> Earlier this year, he said porn and human trafficking were linked, adding that "shutting down the porn industry would be a crushing blow to the human trafficking industry."
I doubt this logic, but open to arguments, as I'm not an expert.
k310 · 16m ago
The law of unintended consequences says that people would find other outlets, namely incest and rape. Oh, and human trafficking.
Smart thinking there.
Poor fellow.
> Well, I first became aware of it during the physical act of love.
> Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed.
> Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly.
> Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred.
> Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
> I do not avoid women. But I do deny them my essence.
Dr. Strangelove
amanaplanacanal · 1h ago
I wonder... Do those folks take an oath of office to uphold the Constitution? Because that whole thing is unamerican.
amarant · 32m ago
Handmaid's tale looking more prophetic by the day!
We'll let the normal penalties pull this off the front page, because there are countless laws proposed by activist lawmakers, very few of which ultimately make it into law. HN has always preferred to wait until something is actually passed into law before considering it worthy of front page time here.
Hizonner · 26m ago
It's true that US state legislators propose a lot of whackjob bills that get exploited for headlines and then die. They usually don't have 5 co-sponsors, though, not even out of 110 in a chamber.
giraffe_lady · 31m ago
You're so unprepared for the emerging political reality in the US it almost looks intentional.
system2 · 48m ago
Google ads for Michigan area VPN keywords will skyrocket that's for sure.
galaxy_gas · 29m ago
Use/distribution of any VPN tool is 100-500k penalty per
autoexec · 35m ago
Only a matter of time before they outlaw VPNs.
gurumeditations · 53m ago
The Republican Party proposed it
autoexec · 41m ago
Of course! Nothing says "small government" like going through every person's internet history and DVD collection to find things they personally don't like and making people a criminal because of them.
xenospn · 1h ago
“ The bill's primary sponsor, Rep. Josh Schriver, has been outspoken about his desire to enact a total porn ban in the state.”
$100 says this guy is absolutely hiding something.
> During his tenure in the Michigan legislature, he has called for a ban on hormonal birth control,[3] pornography,[4][5] same-sex marriage and gender-affirming care for adults,[6] as well as promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.[7]
And please take a look at the picture. It's something else.
Cheer2171 · 1h ago
I was expecting an octogenarian. He's 33 years young.
vrosas · 58m ago
> Schriver has stated that he believes pornography "harms all who come into contact with it" and has publicly compared its use to that of heroin.
You can tell what this dude’s problem is..
busyant · 16m ago
> You can tell what this dude’s problem is..
You know... my wife and I have repeatedly asked my mother-in-law (who lives with us) to not purchase junk food because--even though she has no problem eating it in moderation--we have a hard time doing so if it's just lying around the house.
Maybe we should talk to our state legislator!
teaearlgraycold · 37m ago
I haven’t seen someone tell on themself this hard since Shapiro claimed there’s no such thing as WAP.
>> The bill also includes a section that takes aim at transgender individuals by prohibiting material "that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex."
The bill's sponsors are also pushing for violators of the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act to register as sex offenders.
I doubt this logic, but open to arguments, as I'm not an expert.
Smart thinking there.
Poor fellow.
> Well, I first became aware of it during the physical act of love.
> Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed.
> Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly.
> Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred.
> Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
> I do not avoid women. But I do deny them my essence.
Dr. Strangelove
Positively clearvoyant!
$100 says this guy is absolutely hiding something.
> During his tenure in the Michigan legislature, he has called for a ban on hormonal birth control,[3] pornography,[4][5] same-sex marriage and gender-affirming care for adults,[6] as well as promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.[7]
And please take a look at the picture. It's something else.
You can tell what this dude’s problem is..
You know... my wife and I have repeatedly asked my mother-in-law (who lives with us) to not purchase junk food because--even though she has no problem eating it in moderation--we have a hard time doing so if it's just lying around the house.
Maybe we should talk to our state legislator!