Summary

Project 2025, a manifesto supported by the conservative Heritage Foundation, calls for a ban on pornography, labeling its purveyors as criminals and advocating for strict penalties, including jail time for producers and registered sex offender status for educators distributing it.

The manifesto argues that porn lacks First Amendment protection, framing it as harmful and exploitative.

With a right-leaning Supreme Court, proponents aim to overturn existing protections established in Miller v. California, potentially impacting mainstream media.

Donald Trump has pledged to bring Project 2025 contributors onto his team.

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    People who voted for Trump after he won:

    The same people after he declare porn illegal.

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    I hope they actually do it. This is like the abortion issue, if they actually go through with it people will be like “What?? How could this happen??”

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      First president to have actual nude photos of his wife available.

      If any other president, especially a Democrat, had nudes of their wife it would be a scandal.

      But America is so beholden to these idiots that it doesn’t even matter to anyone.

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        There are lots of things they do that’re scandalous. That’s not one of them. There’s already enough puritanical bullshit fucking up the US. It’s about time some of it were left in the past.

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    Historically speaking people have two things they riot for, safety and comfort. How that comfort manifest varies but pornography is definitely on the same level as whiskey, and the United states has had a rebellion on that.

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      And somehow we just elected a guy who has no qualms with turning the military and the police on its own citizens despite legal doctrine.

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        Well luckily the military has a good chance of not listening to him, atleast in my opinion. The police on the other hand are more of a threat, though not an insurmountable one.

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            Honestly a good amount of that shit is of questionable function, reminder most of the good shit is going to the national guard first. The police are at best using old ass NVG and optics, maybe they have a functional IFV but itll be of questionable maintenance. My local police department gave up and just has the Sheriff department do anything that requires more than a rifle, mostly cause the mechanics refused to work on the humvee they got.

            Also the police arent exactly trained for an actual resistance movement, itll be likely a more embarrassing version of the union and county wars.

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    registered sex offender status for educators distributing it

    If a book in your classroom or school library has anything beyond a heterosexual peck on the cheek, congratulations, you’re now a sex offender. Not a joke.

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      Oh boy, I can’t wait for abstinance to be taught as the only form of sexual education in America.

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        In my school in the Bible belt that was primarily what they focused on. I don’t remember much time being given to condoms. I certainly don’t remember ever being given one or shown how to use it (not that it’s that difficult or anything, but still).

        But what I do remember is a speaker coming to our school to talk to us about how he had sex outside of marriage and got a girl pregnant, but he did the right thing and got married. Also, and I cannot stress this enough, he described this as abstaining because he married the person he had sex with.

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          When the schools close, I guess everybody has to go to Christian school now! No sex education at all, please!

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      Well fuck as a published writer who has gsy characters in my books does that mean I will be labeled under this?

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    Least important effect of a Trump presidency - but I’m sure if he did this it’d be the straw that broke the camel’s back for Gen Z Trumpers.

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      The one thing this election has all but confirmed for me is that over half of the country supports these things unabashedly, and I highly doubt porn will be the hero that magically changes these people. It’s already banned in multiple conservative states, and all of them just voted red again.

      Honestly, I believe that if the Trump admin brought back prohibition, his bootlickers would be the first in line telling us how it’s the best idea ever.

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          He wouldn’t do it. There’s too much money being made there to already wealthy people that support him. I could see him threatening and blackmailing to get a piece of the pie though.

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      Then maybe they should have known that Project 2025 called for that before they decided to vote for Trump.

      Violence against women is about to skyrocket when the incels can’t get a date because they’re too repulsive and can’t watch porn to take out their sexual frustrations because of what they voted for.

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        Then maybe they should have known that Project 2025 called for that before they decided to vote for Trump.

        Those kids would be very angry if they could read

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    Hilarious. As if this could ever actually be instituted nationwide. Regulations on sale and access maybe, but moral crusades like this are perpetually doomed to failure, much like the War on Drugs.

    Doesn’t mean they won’t try, won’t posture, won’t grandstand about it, but to actually succeed in this goal when over 50% of the populace isn’t going to be behind it? I guess we’ll just have to watch them try.

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      They don’t care about total enforcement. They’ll just use it against their enemies and people they want to take down while protecting their own. Rules for thee etc

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      Strange comparison. The war on drugs wrecked so many lives, and hasn’t really ended, just cooled off a little. I don’t see that as a cause for optimism.

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        It’s meant as a comparison in terms of Moral Crusades via Prohibition tactics. I have a feeling that a “ban” on pornography will likely end the same way, with hyperbolic responses and lives disrupted to no positive resolutions. But it really seems untenable as a concept, that genie is so far out of the bottle that there is no bottle anymore; only the whole entire internet

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      It’s not to try and ban porn

      It’s a way to snoop on all Internet traffic.

      Like cops “smelling weed” anytime they want to hassle someone. If they don’t like a person, they’ll spy on their Internet usage, obviously find some kind of porn, and then make a public spectacle out of to distract from what they’re mad at that person for.

      They don’t care about the crime, they want an excuse to investigate people they don’t like.

      Say something mean on twitter, and they’ll search your IP till they find something they can call porn.

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        They’ll say they’re gonna ban it and when there’s uproar they’ll say to “protect the kids” you need a digital ID to access porn. Then they’ll expand it to everything, ban VPN’s, encryption and there will be no more privacy. Big brother is watching, and if he deems you too woke, for whatever arbitrary reason, you’re off to the gulag.

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          Sadly people won’t react before it’s too late because " it will never happen here ! " and till then we think like that because “conspiration”

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        It’s also the pretext for a pogrom against LGBTQ, whose existence in public will be redefined as “pornographic.”

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          And to be clear, this isn’t supposition, it’s already literally happening in Florida.

          Florida is the model for what they want to do everywhere.

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    Italy greets you with its piracy shield.

    Can they actuate such measures? Of course they can, look at Italy. Is it realistic? Well, that depends on how stupid they are. Italy has blocked google trying to ban piracy and the “shield” is easily avoided with a vpn, but hey, they are trying.

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    If you don’t have access to a good VPN (one based outside of the US) and a separate thumb drive for TailsOS, I suggest getting both and learning how to use them before it becomes a lot more difficult to do so

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      Many deeply red states already banned porn a few years back. They voted for Trump again. Conservatives are happy to ban porn.

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    I am not a fan of porn. I find it problematic. But fucking get real, no one’s banning porn. Everyone has a porn-producing camera in their pocket. These fucking idiots, I hope they all have painful and protracted aneurysms.

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      GOP is the party of rules for thee not for me. The leadership are all disgustingly wealthy so they can easily fly their mistresses to another country for abortions, drug fueled sex parties, etc…

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      No, you dont get it. They want to do it precisely because everyone has a porn-producing camera in their pocket, and they can selectively enforce what gets prosecuted. Who wants to bet they go after the gay “porn” first? (And by porn, I mean “picture of two men kissing”)

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        Exactly. This will be just like the “war on drugs” - something to weaponize against groups they don’t like.

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      Everyone has a porn-producing camera in their pocket.

      One corollary is that it’d probably make a little easier for law enforcement/government agencies to subpoena ISPs or snoop around in phones looking for things that aren’t porn. Realistically probably won’t happen but I bet this is a cop’s wet dream similar to ‘distinct smell of marijuana’. Plausible deniability is big brother’s best friend

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        Indeed. This is the breakdown of individual rights people were referring to.

        I’m sure it will start with some sort of “think of the children.”

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          Yup, hypothetically like the Patriot act. Blow smoke up everyone’s ass saying they only use it within its scope (a rather virtuous scope such as ‘preventing sexual exploitation’), the majority with their suspension of disbelief chanting that mantra ‘if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear’. If you go so far as to point out how it could hypothetically be misused you’re met with everything from ‘take the tinfoil hat off’ to ‘which side are you on’. Or worse.

          But then years later everyone finds out that it was misused so much that even those misusing it can’t determine the extent to which it was misused. Just a bunch of case studies of criminal charges in which it was found to have been misused

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      Some red states have started requiring showing a government id to access the website. That was before the gop was in control of all branches of the feds. Bucket up you haven’t seen America be great again yet, it’s gonna be wild.

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        Am aware. Yes, shit bouta be wild up in this bitch. I am here for it (if they don’t kill me, anyway).

        But, let’s be real: there’s nothing substantial standing in the way of accessing porn, even in a redneck backwater. Just gotta be more intelligent than a slime mold to defeat that shit.

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          you also had to have a just a single brain cell advantage over slime mold to not vote that fascist shithead back into office.

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          Let me lay it out for you… lol you know what I’m not going to type that out and give anyone “ideas” have a good day, happy gooning.