A Utah Republican has introduced a bill that would ban internet porn in the US.
The interstate obscenity definition act is a bill that would create a national definition of obscenity according to the office of Sen. Mike Lee from Utah. It would make it illegal to transmit obscene material across state lines, making online smut illegal.
According to Lee's office, obscenity is not protected speech under the First Amendment and is not allowed under American law. The current definition of obscenity is based on community standards and is meant to be narrow.
The Miller precedent makes prosecuting obscenity very difficult. For those who want to keep free speech free, it's a good thing, but for this Utah Republican, it's a bad thing.
IODA will return the nation to the definition of obscenity demonstrated by the 1934 Communications Act if it is passed.
Lee wants to take us back to a legal definition of obscenity that is almost 90 years old, but he also wants to remove the "intent" portion of the second part of the Communications Act rule.
Mike Stabile told Vice News that IODA wouldn't pass Congress. An alarming precedent is set by its introduction.
Stabile said that we are in a reactionary cultural moment.
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