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Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers - Michigan Swamp Buck - 09-18-2025
I'm not big into porn, internet or not, so I don't really care if they ban online porn. I can easily live without it. However, this bill is right out of the communist playbook (think China or North Korea).
You will not only be prevented from accessing it here in Michigan, but you won't be allowed to make it yourself, not even write pornographic stories or create a soundtrack that sounds sexual (no heavy breathing or moaning). No one in Michigan, including visitors, will be able to get trans material or make it themselves, and apparently, you won't be able to talk about it either. Do you use a VPN? Then you will be arrested for that alone, regardless of what you were doing online.
To think, some Michigan Republican has been working on this for a long time now, and with all the overreach, it has gone into communist territory now.
Quote: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.
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 would require internet service providers in Michigan to use filters to prevent people from seeing the prohibited material.
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.
Additionally, an internet service provider or commercial entity could face fines for knowingly allowing people to access sexually explicit material online.
The bill's sponsors are also pushing for violators of the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act to register as sex offenders.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/total-porn-ban-proposed-michigan-lawmakers
Quote:WTF?! An increasing number of states and even countries are introducing age-verification systems to prevent minors from accessing adult websites. For adults unwilling to hand over personal details such as facial scans, VPNs have offered a workaround. But six Michigan Republican representatives have introduced a bill that would completely ban not only porn for everyone in the state but also VPNs. It also proposes placing porn distributors on the sex offenders registry and banning depictions of transgender people.
Rep. Josh Schriver of Oxford, the lead sponsor of House Bill 4938, named the Anti-corruption of Public Morals Act, wrote that its "measures defend children, safeguard our communities, and put families first."
https://www.techspot.com/news/109502-michigan-bill-seeks-total-ban-porn-ndash-vpns.html