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Florida Universities Are Renaming Their Courses

Florida Universities Are Renaming Their Courses

Yet the right says the democrats are the ones indoctrinating students.   These are upper levels of schooling, college and universities, that they are removing any talk of equality, racism, and so much more.   Professors having to scrub their courses and presentations of anything that might upset the ruler / dictator DeathSantis.   Imagine this country wide.   Talk about the Taliban or moral / vice police.  This is stunning and worse it is not getting any national attention or scrutiny.   It is scary how fascist the state of Florida has become in several short years.  With DeathSantis making Florida a maga white Christian paradise the state is being flooded with intolerant people who won’t accept any social advance since the 1850s.  Plus notice the drive is to make a public school be just like a conservative Christian college.   Hugs

 

The Orlando Sentinel reports:

Yovanna Pineda, hired more than a decade ago to teach Latin American history at the University of Central Florida, rebranded one of her signature courses last fall. Striking references to “dictatorships” and “human rights” from the title, she decided to simply call her class “History of South America.”

Pineda said many of her colleagues are making similar changes, either because they fear blowback from state leaders who say they are trying to eliminate “indoctrination” from university campuses or because they don’t want the hassle of additional scrutiny.

DeSantis continued his campaign last week, appointing far-right activist Christopher Rufo to the Board of Trustees at New College of Florida. Rufo is best known for launching a national campaign against critical race theory. Rufo told The New York Times he and his new colleagues seek to transform New College into a public version of Michigan’s Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school.

Read the full article. That’s Rufo standing appropriately on the far-right in the screenshot above.

zheraan hour ago

“Freedom from indoctrination”

Double-speak, much?

Ninja0980a few seconds from now

If you want to see true hypocrisy, look no further then Cuban Republicans in FL who scream about how evil socialism and Castro are while applauding everything DeSantis does.
They hate socialism but love fascism.

zhera Ragnar Lothbrokan hour ago

It’s terrifying! I fear for you Americans.

JoeMyGodModan hour ago

Like openly gay Florida state Rep. Carlos Smith (seen above), I am a graduate of UCF, which is now the nation’s largest public university by enrollment.

jeffg166 clayan hour ago

Accreditation may just become a problem for Florida schools as they try to muzzle thinking.

TrollopeReader jeffg16629 minutes ago

aren’t accreditations done by regional groups? So as FL / GA / the Deep South grow less “tolerant” the agency will just go along?

Jay Silversmithan hour ago

The Grievance On Parade party.

heleninedinburgh2 hours ago edited

So the ‘academic freedom’ they’re so loudly in favour of just means the ability of professors to use slurs and misgender their students without being talked to by HR.
I mean we knew that, but nice to see it actually being confirmed in real time.

weshlovrcman hour ago

In the Fascist State of Florida, the remaking of education continues on course. Henceforth, all institutions of learning will be used to groom children into fascism and eliminate anything that does not support/agree with fascist theory.

J.Martindale2 hours ago

“Freedom from indoctrination” by stifling free speech. The irony of it all!

J.Martindalean hour ago

What I don’t understand is why the ACLU or some other organization hasn’t brought suit against the governor for violation of the First Amendment. This is exactly what the amendment was designed to prohibit: governmental interference with free speech.

bambinoitaliano2 hours ago

Why even send your children to Florida universities at this point. Soon none of the institution live up to the normal standard of operation. Moron Death Sentence is hell bend on turning Florida into a shit hole state.

TexasBoy2 hours ago edited

What good is college if they can’t present alternative views and stimulate the students analytical thinking to make up their own minds.

This is what stimulates creativity, abstract views, and new inventions to improve everyones lives.

Republicans….taking us back to the Middle Ages without the need for a flux capacitor.

Melissia TexasBoyan hour ago

Simple.

If they cannot stimulate the students’ minds, then they shall be indoctrination centers for capitalism.

There is no such thing as an apolitical education, it either serves to liberate men or make them slaves.

J.Martindale2 hours ago

And the administrations of these schools are unable to protect academic freedom for their professors because of fear of retribution and firing. DeSantis is Big Brother.

JT2 hours ago

“A History of Our Lord and Savior DeSantis”

John Tan hour ago

Imagine living in a state where you can get in trouble for criticizing dictators in a classroom lecture.

Leftyan hour ago edited

He is scary evil. Dog help us if when he runs for president.

What, me worry?an hour ago

Welcome to 1984 and Newspeak. Double-plus good!

Frankly, I can hardly wait to flush this timeline down the Memory Hole.

TexasBoy2 hours ago edited

All public educators, at all grade levels, should simply walk out. There is no way Florida would be able to replace every single teacher and college professor in the state. The federal government would be forced to step in.

The goal is to erase gay and trans people and return society to a straights only time these people enjoyed. It also is about regulating what other people can see or read.

russian warship go fucck yrslf3 minutes ago

OT, but not just school libraries. public libraries
https://twitter.com/Esqueer…

GOP proposes anti-drag bill that classifies gender non-conforming performers as “adult oriented”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/01/gop-proposes-anti-drag-bill-classifies-gender-non-conforming-performers-adult-oriented/

Clothing is scary for republicans it seems.    Pants on women, dresses on men, I wonder they don’t freak out about ear rings on men or long hair.    Stupid, pure stupidity, rather than work on real issues they want to worry about what other people wear.    Hugs

The Arkansas GOP thinks if you’re gender non-conforming and tell a dirty joke, you’re like a sex worker.
 
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Arkansas state Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R) has filed a bill that would classify drag queens as employees of an “adult-oriented business,” similar to nude models, porn actors, and sex workers.

The bill would put restrictions on transgender and non-binary people singing and dancing in public. It would also require bars, restaurants, shops, and theaters to relocate if they allow such behavior from people of those identities or anything resembling drag.

The bill, S.B. 43, defines a drag performance as one in which a performer “exhibits a gender identity that is different from the performer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other accessories that are traditionally worn by members of… the performer’s opposite sex,” and performs a song or dance “intended to appeal to the prurient interest” in front of an audience of two or more people.

By this broad definition, a transgender or non-binary person singing a song about lovemaking, reciting a sexual story, or gyrating while dancing would be legally considered the same as a sex worker or someone having sex on camera. In fact, the law would consider any person doing these things as someone who works for an “adult-oriented business” if they wore anything not associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

The law would also redefine an adult-oriented business as any place where such a performance occurs. This would include bars, restaurants, and any places that allow gender non-conforming individuals to sing, dance, or otherwise perform.

The state’s zoning laws would require such businesses to be relocated outside of areas where children can easily view them.

Legislators from at least seven states — Arizona, Idaho, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas — have proposed anti-drag laws in recent months, according to Bloomberg Law. Republican legislators in these states claim that drag shows “sexualize children” even though such performances rarely ever feature sexual content.

The proposed legislation would almost certainly be challenged in court soon after being signed into law since it violates constitutional protections for free speech. But the real aims of such laws are to silence LGBTQ+ allies and generate outrage against the LGBTQ+ community.

Their proposed legislation has also emboldened neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, white supremacists, and other anti-LGBTQ+ activists to issue death threats against businesses and public libraries that hold all-ages drag events. At least 124 incidents targeting drag events were reported in 2022 far this year across 47 U.S. states, according to the LGBTQ+ media watchdog group GLAAD.

 
 

NE Bill Would Criminalize Taking Kids To Drag Shows

NE Bill Would Criminalize Taking Kids To Drag Shows

News Channel Nebraska reports:

A bill proposed in the unicameral would place limitations on who can watch drag shows in Nebraska. The bill would ban anyone under 19 from watching a drag show, and it would prohibit anyone under 21 from watching drag shows where alcohol is present.

LB371 was introduced by Republican State Sen. Dave Murman and is already stirring debate in the Legislature. Democratic State Sen. Megan Hunt has filed a motion to postpone the bill indefinitely, a decision that is still pending.

Anyone who knowingly brings someone underage to a show would be subject to a misdemeanor. The entities themselves would be subject to a $10,000 fine per violation. The bill would also make it illegal to use state funds to host a drag show.

Read the full article.

 

Paddycakes20012 hours ago

Looking for the silver lining, this means parents can’t take kids to church anymore, right?

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liondon#traitor-ex-president7 hours ago

Guns kill thousands pf kids yearly and pedophile clergy prey on thousands more… so eff these mofo’s.

Strolling In, Softly Whistling7 hours ago

I bet they’re not banning child beauty pageants, though.

Uncle Mark Strolling In, Softly Whistling7 hours ago

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charemor Uncle Mark3 hours ago

I wonder what these kids think about this as they grow older and mature.

Zorba Strolling In, Softly Whistling7 hours ago

I’ve always thought that these child beauty pageants were pedophiles’ dreams.
{Sigh}

Moms for Liberty say they’d like to see Parental Rights in Education law expanded

Moms for Liberty say they’d like to see Parental Rights in Education law expanded

And so the haters / republicans / right wing pushes it further.   Really it is turning the clock back.  It is regressive.   It is denying every advance in society and in medical science since the 1950s.   Ask your self why that age / time stamp is so attractive to republican males?   Because everyone but them were oppressed and they had unfettered control.    Hug

 

Advocates want the bill to forbid discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity to 8th grade.

The Florida chapter of Moms for Liberty, the conservative nonprofit that advocates for parental rights in schools, would like state lawmakers to expand the state law that restricts classroom instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation for children from kindergarten through the third grade.

The Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by its critics, ignited a firestorm of criticism among Democrats and LGBTQ advocates and received national attention after it was introduced and later signed into law last year.

“We are advocating to increase that as far as ages and grades to have it be K-8,” said Angela Dubach, the Pinellas County chapter chair of the organization, speaking to the members of the Pinellas County legislative delegation as they met as a group on Wednesday morning at the Clearwater branch campus of St. Petersburg College.

A group of students, parents, and teachers filed a lawsuit last year to block the measure from being implemented, alleging it is unconstitutional in part because it “chills speech and expression that have any connection, however remote, to sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Brandon Wolf, press secretary for Equality Florida, slammed the idea.

 

“At every step of the way, right-wing extremists have gaslit the community about its insatiable desire for censorship and erasure of LGBTQ people,” he told the Phoenix in an email.

“They insisted that the Don’t Say LGBTQ law would be narrow in scope and limited to K-3, despite knowing that the law’s impacts would be far broader and more sweeping. Already, we’ve seen books with LGBTQ characters banned, ‘Safe Space’ stickers peeled from classroom windows, the contributions of LGBTQ people in history censored, and LGBTQ History Month itself rejected in districts across Florida,” he continued.

“The desire of right-wing groups like Moms for Liberty to wield more government censorship over more students is shameful and at odds with the bogus rationalization for this harmful policy they were peddling throughout 2022. LGBTQ people are a part of society’s fabric. We are your neighbors, family members, and friends. And our state should be a place committed to protecting all students and respecting all families.”

Four asks

The expansion of that law was one of four proposals that Dubach called on lawmakers to consider going into the 2023 legislative session. Dubach said that she’d also like legislators to “take a look” at expanding the timeline on legislation signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2021 that bans private employers and government entities from implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandates and school districts from requiring face masks. The measure is slated to expire on June 1.

 

Another measure that the Florida chapter of Moms for Liberty supports relates to school board races.

“Myself and our organization supports partisan school board elections,” Dubach said. “That’s something that we are asking you to take a look at. I was originally told that we’d have to change the Florida Constitution so we wouldn’t be able to do that, so if you could advise me on that that’d be wonderful.”

Measures have been filed in both the House and Senate this year calling for a constitutional amendment to require members of a district school board to be chosen in partisan elections. If approved, it would go into effect in 2026.

Florida voters voted overwhelmingly in 1998 to make school board races nonpartisan, and efforts to put such an amendment on the ballot have failed in recent legislative sessions. But that was before Gov. DeSantis weighed in on the topic last summer and endorsed 30 candidates in school board races, the majority of whom won either in their Primary or General Election contests last year.

The last item Dubach mentioned was “some type of legislation” around the amount of mental health funding that public schools in Florida receive.

“Right now, Pinellas County schools have $140 million allocated for mental health, and I talk to teacher after teacher after teacher and they say, ‘We are not mental health counselors. We want to educate these children and get them ready for the next grade,’” Dubach told the group of legislators. “They don’t want anything to do with mental health. That is up to the parents, their doctors, and all of that stuff is at home.”

The Phoenix reached out to the Pinellas County School District to confirm those financial figures but did not immediately receive a response.  State lawmakers have five more weeks of committee meetings scheduled between now and the official beginning of the legislative session on March 7.

ARE TRANSPHOBES OKAY…? | NOAHFINNCE

A bunch of Joe My God news posts I wanted to share. Hugs

Florida Pastor Sentenced To 20 Years For Child Rape

Yet still not a drag queen or trans person.  There were other ones posted in the days I got these from but I felt one was enough.  You can see the tally that Joe has been keeping.    Hugs

FAA System Outage Blamed On “Honest” Human Error

New MO Rule: Female Lawmakers May Not Bare Arms

The handmaids tale gets closer and closer as the republican run states fight to return the society to a much more regressive time when women were under more control of men.   Hugs

New York GOP Official Pleads Guilty To Voter Fraud

The republicans know there is voter fraud because they are the ones doing it.   I wonder if this guy will get five years in prison like the poor black woman who was told she could vote and did so but she did not qualify.   Texas threw the maximum punishment at her.  Hugs

Fox Host Rants About “Transvestite” Pilots [VIDEO]

Notice that he never thinks of women pilots.  To him all piolets must be male and the ones in dresses or skirts are cross dressing men to his mind.  What a bigoted piece of shit.   Hugs

CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Drag queens are the newest boogieman of the right, easy targets to rile up their base that hopes for either the return to the 1950s or the 1850s depending how they feel about women and black people.   Hugs

Aunt Lydia Bans “Indoctrinating Children” In Arkansas

Notice it is only indoctrination and wrong when it is about acceptance / tolerance of diversity and minorities.   Push hard right wing ideology is just reality for these republicans.  Pushing an outdated 1950s style of society to them is normal but in truth that is the indoctrination they accuse the left of.   They are trying hard to regress society and the acceptance of others who are different from them.  They cannot live and let live.   They must force everyone to fit the mold they demand they live in.   The want a society where straight Christian males are assumed to be in charge, women are subservient to white straight men, blacks know their place and stay in it, and the gay and trans people are not seen or acknowledged in society staying firmly hidden in their closets.     Hugs

Texts Support Groping Allegations Against Matt Schlapp

House GOP Showboats With False Anti-Abortion Bill

As the article points out once born it is a child, living child and to kill it is already murder.   By definition abortion is not being born.  The bill is just grandstanding.   Plus they don’t seem to learn, restricting abortion is not popular so they are doubling down and this time claiming that abortion is the killing of already born babies.   Hugs

School Official Halts Reading Of Dr. Suess “Race” Book

We must not admit that discrimination is real and happening even now.   Afterall they don’t seem concerned about the discomfort the minority children of color and the LGBTQ+ kids experience every day, but we must never make the white kids uncomfortable.   Actually it is not the kids’ comfort they care about, but the white republican parents.    Hugs

Voldemort Sues TX Medical Schools Over Admissions

If you read the comments you will see that several admissions directors commented that the persons scores were not that great and they look at social media along with other factors.   They clearly seen something all of the schools disliked.    Considering his complaint is non-whites are getting into the school while white males such as himself are waiting for a spot seems that he is a racist misogynist who they don’t want in their student body.   

Florida School District Bans Book About Gay Penguins

Because letting kids know that even in nature with animals there are gay couples will rot their teeth curve their spines and cause them to suddenly become gay or trans.   What stupidity.   Gay couples exist and are legal.  Land of the free remember.   They don’t want to hide straight couples from kids.  They don’t think kids seeing straight couples is sexualizing the children or teaching them sex.   It is simply bigotry, and they are not really hiding it.   They want to erase the gays and trans from society and they are using the kids as the excuse.    Hugs

Right Wing Platform Parler Lays Off Almost All Staff

The right wing doesn’t even want to be on their own platform because there is no one for them to fight with, these site ban liberals which takes the fun away from the trolls.   Hugs

FL Supreme Court Asked To Clarify Definition Of “Riot”

This was an attack on minority people of color and totally racist.   It was a set of laws designed to let the state stop any protest for equality or the killing of unarmed black people by the police.   They also passed a law saying that if protestors such as the George Floyd killing protestors got into the street they could legally be run over and arrested even when they had a permit.  Yet when the Cubans who normally vote republicans protested in the street the government did not allow them to be run over nor did they arrest them.   Strange it seems the law only applies to the left or democrats.     Hugs 

Santos Took Illegal Donation From Migrant Smuggler

Carlson Claims Deep State Plot Brought Down Nixon

Notice he doesn’t admit Nixon broke the laws and did things that were illegal.  Nope it is the fault of the people who caught him, and they are the bad guys.   Hugs

Olentangy Schools official cuts off reading of Dr. Seuss book during NPR podcast

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2023/01/09/olentangy-schools-halts-reading-of-dr-seuss-book-during-npr-podcast/69791362007/

What police states Florida and other republican states have become.   Remember these are the same people who were super angry that the Dr. Seuss people decided not to publish racist books that were not selling well anymore.   These are the same people angry that the Potato head toy with no gender got rid of the Mr / Mrs in the name of the toy.  This is what a dictatorship looks like, the start of state sanctioned ideology forced on kids, this is the real indoctrination.   I want to point out the kids were already aware of discrimination and racism.  What better place to address it and try to encourage an acceptance of equality and diversity?   Third grade is 8 years old and by that age the black kids are well aware of race and racism, why shouldn’t the white kids have it explained to them so they understand it is a bad thing?   Hugs

A number of Dr. Seuss books, including "The Sneetches," at the Fairfield County District Library in March 2021. An Olentangy Schools elementary teacher was reading "The Sneetches" as part of NPR’s "Plant Money" podcast when a school official halted the reading.

The assistant director of communications for Olentangy Local School District abruptly stopped the reading of the Dr. Seuss book “The Sneetches” to a third-grade classroom during an NPR podcast after students asked about race.

Shale Meadows Elementary School third grade teacher Mandy Robek was reading “The Sneetches” to her class as part of NPR’s latest episode of “Planet Money” about the economic lessons in children’s books. During the podcast, which aired Friday, Amanda Beeman, the assistant director of communications for the school district, stopped the reading part way through the book. 

NPR reporter Erika Beras spent the day in Robek’s class with Beeman for the podcast. As part of the district stipulations, politics were off limits. Six books were selected ahead of time by Beras and the district — including “The Sneetches.”

“I don’t know if I feel comfortable with the book being one of the ones featured,” Beeman is heard saying on the podcast during the middle of “The Sneetches” reading. “I just feel like this isn’t teaching anything about economics, and this is a little bit more about differences with race and everything like that.”

“The Sneetches,” published in 1961, is a book about two kinds of Sneetches: those with stars on their bellies and those without stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches are judged negatively by their appearance, so capitalist Sylvester McMonkey McBean makes money selling them stars for their bellies. Meanwhile, the Star-Bellied Sneetches don’t like associating with the Plain-Belly Sneetches, so they start paying to have a machine take their stars off. 

The Seuss family has said the book was intended to teach children not to judge or discriminate against others because of their appearance and to treat people equitably.

“It’s almost like what happened back then, how people were treated … Like, disrespected … Like, white people disrespected Black people…,” a third grade student is heard saying on the podcast.

Robek keeps on reading, but it’s shortly after this student’s comment is made on the podcast that Beeman interrupts the reading.  

“I just don’t think that this is going to be the discussion that we wanted around economics,” Beeman said on the podcast. “So I’m sorry. We’re going to cut this one off.”

Beras tried to tell Beeman that “The Sneetches” is about preferences, open markets and economic loss, but Beeman replied, “I just don’t think it might be appropriate for the third-grade class and for them to have a discussion around it.”

On the “Planet Money” episode, Beras reached back out to Beeman to ask about what happened. Beeman replied, “When the book began addressing racism, segregation and discriminating behaviors, this was not the conversation we had prepared Mrs. Robek, the students or parents would take place. There may be some very important economics lessons in ‘The Sneetches,’ but I did not feel that those lessons were the themes students were going to grasp at that point in the day or in the book.”

Olentangy Schools responds to The Dispatch

Beeman explained to The Dispatch on Monday that the school district agreed to be part of the “Planet Money” story “to feature the great work that Mrs. Robek does.” 

“We do not ban any books,” Beeman said.

“As (‘The Sneetches’) was being read, I made a personal judgment call we shouldn’t do the reading because of some of the other themes and undertones that were unfolding that were not shared that we would be discussing with parents,” Beeman said. 

The book touches on racism, segregation, and discriminatory behavior, Beeman said.

“We are really not about suppressing any viewpoints or dialogues,” Beeman said. “There were great economic lessons and the conversation wasn’t going toward (economics).” 

Looking back, Beeman said she does wish she had handled the situation differently by talking to Robek separately to figure out a way to continue the Seuss book and have the discussion geared more toward economics. 

Beras did not immediately respond to The Dispatch’s questions Monday afternoon.

Some of the other books that Robek’s class read when Beras visited included “Pancakes, Pancakes!” by Eric Carle; “Put Me In The Zoo” by Robert Lopshire; and a poem from “Where The Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein. 

Banned Dr. Seuss books, but not ‘The Sneetches’

In 2021, Seuss Enterprises said it would stop publishing six Dr. Seuss books because of racist and insensitive imagery, but “The Sneetches” was not one of those books.

The six books are “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”

sex panic

The second-poorest state in the nation just made monitoring people’s porn viewing habits its top priority

https://www.queerty.com/second-poorest-state-country-just-made-policing-adult-videos-online-top-priority-20230109

What makes these people so afraid of sex?   Why do they think teens / young adults were not just as horny in the 1950s as they are in the 2020s?   How much better to just explain porn to kids starting at about ten years old.   Explain it is not real, explain about consent, and as the kids age explain their feelings, desires, needs, and conception because teens and young people are going to have sex.   They really are, and they have forever.   The body is driven to it and unless you give them an outlet for that need, they will do it the most risky way as that normally is what young people do.   The most risky stuff.   Hugs

adult-video-sexual-content-louisiana-drivers-lisence-id-identification Young man is sitting in bed and watching movie on laptop

Louisiana web users who want to view adult content must now provide a valid driver’s license or state ID to prove they’re above 18 years of age, thanks to a new state law that recently went into effect.

And while that might sound funny, Republicans want to pass a similar law nationwide.

The law, House Bill 142 (HB 142), says that any commercial website containing 33.3 percent or more of sexually explicit material must “perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material.” While all popular adult websites haven’t instituted age checks yet, if they don’t, they can be sued for non-compliance.

The bill was introduced by anti-LGBTQ+ state Rep. Laurie Schlegel, a woman who introduced legislation banning transgender kids from playing on school sports teams matching their gender identities.

Schlegel’s HB 142 says, “[Sexual content] is creating a public health crisis and having a corroding influence on minors.” It also blames adult content for “the hypersexualization of teens and prepubescent children… low self-esteem, body image disorders, an increase in problematic sexual activity at younger ages, and increased desire among adolescents to engage in risky sexual behavior.”

The bill also says sexual content may “impact brain development and functioning, contribute to emotional and medical illnesses, shape deviant sexual arousal, and lead to difficulty in forming or maintaining positive, intimate relationships, as well as promoting problematic or harmful sexual behaviors and addiction.”

Louisiana is the second-poorest state in the country, with 17.4% of its population at or below the poverty line. It also has the second-highest rate of childhood poverty, with 26.8% of its children living at or below the poverty line. And this is what state lawmakers there are currently focused on.

Web viewers will have to enter information from their IDs into a third-party verification system that claims not to store the user data.

Schlegel says the bill is meant to protect children rather than penalize adults. However, if web viewers feel scared about entering their personal information into a verification system, they may turn to lesser-known websites that feature illegal content, one researcher worries.

Olivia Snow — a sex worker, professor, and research fellow at UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry — told TechCrunch, “[The law is] really just further marginalizing sex workers, which I think is going to be the primary effect. I imagine this means that there will be an increased black market of premium [sexual] content that’s non-consensually disseminated.”

If Schlegel’s bill sounds ridiculous, don’t laugh. It may actually be a sign of things to come.

In November 2022, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill that would revise the federal definition of “obscenity” to essentially criminalize any web users who view or share “obscene” images online.

“The definition for obscenity [under Lee’s law is] so broad that it would encompass almost all sexual speech now legal,” adult industry advocacy group Free Speech Coalition (FSC) Director of Public Affairs Mike Stabile told The Mary Sue.

“It would also criminalize fans who share content, or couples who sext or share intimate images on dating apps. People don’t think of themselves as ‘[sexual content] distributors,’ but under this bill, even retweeting adult content or DMing a dick pic is a criminal act. The headlines are about [sexual adult content], but this bill criminalizes sex,” Stabile added.

Republicans CRASH AND BURN with first bill of House majority

The republican bill will add 114 billion of dollars to the debt just after McCarthy said that they would stop the rise in debt. All to coddle and help the rich steal more of the country’s money.