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.

  • Joker
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    People who voted for Trump after he won:

    The same people after he declare porn illegal.

  • @Feathercrown
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    444 hours ago

    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??”

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      858 minutes ago

      Considering the countrybas a whole didn’t learn from 2016, there is absolutely no way anything would change.

      • @Feathercrown
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        356 minutes ago

        2016 was different because Hillary was genuinely unlikable. This time we have no excuse

        • @[email protected]
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          349 minutes ago

          Did you wipe the server?

          Like with a towel?

          That did really annoyed me.

          Sad part is I could see Trump said he wiped it and it would change no vote.

    • @Eatspancakes84
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      204 hours ago

      And then 2 years pass, and they have completely who banned porn, and why it’s the mistake of Democrats.

  • @Squorlple
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    1327 hours ago

    First president to make pictures of his current wife illegal

    • IninewCrow
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      486 hours ago

      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.

      • Ech
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        174 hours ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @teamevil
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      234 hours ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        114 hours ago

        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.

        • @sensiblepuffin
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          21 hour ago

          Good thing we spent the last 25 years giving the police surplus military equipment.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 hour ago

            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.

  • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Oh boy, I can’t wait for abstinance to be taught as the only form of sexual education in America.

      • JackbyDev
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        62 hours ago

        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.

      • @Mirshe
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        I’m expecting them to go even further, and just stop doing sex education period.

        • @AreaKode
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          186 hours ago

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

    • @Fredselfish
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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?

      • Diplomjodler
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        Absolutely. The handmaids will rip you to pieces in a public execution.

  • babybus
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    226 hours ago

    We’re back to 1920s. Mafia will bootleg porn from Mexico and Canada.

    • Diplomjodler
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      114 hours ago

      And of course they will use it as an excuse to implement complete surveillance on all your devices.

  • @[email protected]
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    296 hours ago

    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.

    • @BassTurd
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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.

      • @TexasDrunk
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        brought back prohibition

        Don’t even joke about that.

        • @BassTurd
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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.

    • Billiam
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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.

      • I Cast Fist
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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

  • @kat_angstrom
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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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      The war on drugs only failed if you truly believe its goal was getting rid of drugs.

      To quote John Erlichman, one of its architects:

      “The Nixon Campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

      By the strandards of what it was created to do, the war on drugs was fantastically successful.

      The war on porn will be successful in exactly the same way, because Republicans have already spent decades redefining all LGBTQ content as “pornographic”. This is will be a tool for disrupting queer and trans communities, for erasing queer and trans resources and tearing down queer and trans rights activists. Stopping porn isn’t the point, and it never was.

    • fadingembers
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      228 minutes ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
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      82 hours ago

      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.

      • @kat_angstrom
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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

    • @givesomefucks
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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.

        • HeadfullofSoup
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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”

          • skulblaka
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            First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…

          • Billiam
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            Every fascist takeover starts with “Oh, you’re just overreacting.”

            Everyone, remember these six words:

            HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO.

        • @Fredselfish
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          Oklahoma already did this. Can’t access porn unless you first submit an ID.

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

        • @[email protected]
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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.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        It’s also a way to enforce ideological purity in education.

  • @[email protected]
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    197 hours ago

    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.

    • RVGamer06
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      And also they accidentally blocked Cloudflare before Google

  • mommykink
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    137 hours ago

    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

    • @errer
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      54 hours ago

      I suspect VPNs will become a legal target as well…

      • @[email protected]
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        The police and law enforcement use having a VPN as a reason to surveil.

        “what do you dare trying to hide from us ?!?” is act ii from the play entitled “pick up that can, citizen”

    • @Sightline
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      I’ve been stockpiling since 2015

  • @paddirn
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    Time to start stockpiling.

  • @xc2215x
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    This would be the one thing that would cause a shift.

    • @Burn_The_Right
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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.

    • @Sightline
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      No it wouldn’t. It would be normalized and people would forget it was a thing.

  • @Rookwood
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    Literally the last thing I’m worried about in this presidency.