Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Texas Law Limiting Access to Pornography

[Frank D. Lincoln]

5. It's going to open up a Pandora's box.

Project 2025 (which has a goal to outlaw porn):

Step 1: Nationalize age restriction to porn.

Step 2: Outlaw porn.

Step 3A: Criminalize the production of porn (possibly even private sexually explicit pictures taken by lovers--a very common practice).

Step 3B: (Possibly) criminalize the possession of porn.

Step 4: Invade the privacy of adult U.S. citizens to enforce the porn ban (including adults who supplied their government ID to view porn online).

Step 5: Arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate adults in violation of the porn ban.

Step 6: Force the adults mentioned in Step 5 to register as sex offenders.

Step 7: Redefine the word "porn" to mean anything conservatives and/or Christian nationalists want it to mean.

Step 8: Even many R-rated mainstream Hollywood movies, books/literature previously not considered to be pornographic, etc., will be deemed to be "porn" if conservatives and/or Christian nationalists want to ban it.

I think the way things currently are is a lot better than where Republicans are aiming to take us.

Long before the Internet (I mean for decades), under-aged people have found ways to view porn (for example, finding and looking at their daddy's "stash," etc.). When that happens, it's not the end of the world. And, it's definitely a better outcome than the government banning porn and criminalizing people associated with it.

Through many years of legal precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that porn is protected by the 1st Amendment. Whereas, this SCOTUS, as we all know, doesn't give a damn about legal precedent or the Constitution when they have a conservative agenda to push (in this case, Christian nationalism).