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Total porn ban proposed by Michigan law makers

Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:38 am
Posted by StringedInstruments
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Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:38 am
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LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) - Michigan lawmakers proposed a bill last week banning porn.


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This comes after the bill's primary sponsor, Rep. Josh Schriver (R-Oxford), said earlier this year that he was working to draft legislation banning all porn online. Dig deeper: House Bill 4938, called the "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act," would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts. The bill breaks down the types of acts covered, including intercourse and masturbation.


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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."


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If the bill were to become law, violators could be looking at prison time or hefty fines. Distributing the prohibited material or making it available online would carry a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and/or a $100,000 fine. If more than 100 pieces of prohibited material are involved, that penalty jumps to 25 years in prison and/or a fine up to $125,000.


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Posted by The Pirate King
Pangu
Member since May 2014
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Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:40 am to
No way in hell this passes in Michigan. This probably couldn't be passed anywhere in the US.
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
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Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:41 am to
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No way in hell this passes in Michigan


Do you even Dearborn bro?
Posted by Tantal
Member since Sep 2012
18909 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:42 am to
Not only will it not pass, but would be struck down by the courts if it did.
Posted by Big4SALTbro
Member since Jun 2019
22365 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:43 am to
Stretching Gretchen isn’t going to support this
Posted by Delusional
Member since Dec 2018
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Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:43 am to
Posted by Mike da Tigah
Bravo Romeo Lima Alpha
Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:46 am to
Good, get back to National Geographic’s
Posted by prouddawg
Member since Sep 2024
6662 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:48 am to
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No way in hell this passes in Michigan.


Muzzles would be on the evangelicals side on this one, I ‘magine.
This post was edited on 9/16/25 at 7:54 am
Posted by RolltidePA
North Carolina
Member since Dec 2010
4985 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:52 am to
Flash forward; there's a sudden and extreme demand for vintage Victoria's Secret catalogs in Michigan.
Posted by Poker_hog
Member since Mar 2019
3396 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:54 am to
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distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts.


I mean they wouldn’t be allowed to show most mainstream movies.

I get that it’s not ideal for developing minds to have unlimited access to depravity but maybe there’s some middle ground somewhere.
Posted by Henry Jones Jr
Member since Jun 2011
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Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:54 am to
I could be wrong but didn’t Larry Flynt win a lawsuit that prevented this?
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
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Posted on 9/16/25 at 7:55 am to
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digitally generated

Oh, the brave new world.
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
8451 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:00 am to
Free and unfettered access to porn (and gore) will ultimately destroy our civilization.
Posted by prouddawg
Member since Sep 2024
6662 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:01 am to
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Good, get back to National Geographic’s


Sears catalogues
Posted by RolltidePA
North Carolina
Member since Dec 2010
4985 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:02 am to
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I could be wrong but didn’t Larry Flynt win a lawsuit that prevented this?



Hustler Magazine v. Falwell was a libel case about parody. Which protected parody under the first amendment. Hustler did a parody of Jerry Falwell and he sued and won damages. It went to the supreme court and Falwell lost.

Cincinnati v. Contemporary Arts Center, (Robert Mapplethorpe case) might actually be the one that covers this, it was an obscenity case where the artistic value of pornographic images were upheld. I don't really remember all the details of this case specifically, but it seems in the ballpark.

Stanley v. Georgia (paraphrasing here) allows you to legally have pornographic material in your home.
This post was edited on 9/16/25 at 8:08 am
Posted by EasterEgg
New Orleans Metro
Member since Sep 2018
5264 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:05 am to
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That would be devastating to Alabama's favorite coping mechanism. The Deboer years about to get doubly difficult.
Posted by BigBinBR
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2023
8997 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:05 am to
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"Anticorruption of Public Morals Act," would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts.


This is just posturing because this would be deemed unconstitutional almost immediately.

Now they can enact a law like Louisiana, Texas, and others that require confirmed ID to access, but they can't outright ban it.
Posted by Victor R Franko
Member since Dec 2021
1971 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:06 am to
They better not cut out the matures with
Big ( . )( . ) !
Posted by tide06
Member since Oct 2011
19901 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:08 am to
What is the purpose of this?

A 20 year prison sentence for porn?

At best it’s a gross overreaction.

At worst it’s propaganda for the left to use to drive independents back to the DNC.

Can’t help but feel this is like Graham going after abortions right before midterms a few years ago… seems like something someone who is trying to get democrats elected would do.
Posted by tketaco
Sunnyside, Houston
Member since Jan 2010
21466 posts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:14 am to
This will be a thing in the coming years because now you can make homemade porn with a Localized AI Image/Video generator. Politicians with skin in the game will push for the ban to grow an AI market they invested in.
This post was edited on 9/16/25 at 8:15 am
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