The party of small government sure does a lot of mommying.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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I remember being VERY pissed about Obamacare requiring an individual having insurance by paying a for-profit company, else pay a penalty, because of the pro-corp "nanny state" implications, much like I despise legally-required auto insurance (without a government-funded baseline).
Yet here we are with "muh indivdulizm" republicans making the overreach far worse than Democrats ever would have.
Obamacare was invented by a Republican. It was done as a compromise because most Democrat legislators are right wing and don't want to see public healthcare enacted in the US.
This. In retrospect it's kind of amazing it even got passed, and that is the best we can do with democrats controlling 60% of the house and 58 senate seats. And unless republicans are somehow tricked into voting for national popular vote legislation and federally enforced fair districting, or we wait 25 years for all the boomers to die out and hope that millennials still want UHC, AND we also repeal citizens united, the ACA is probably the best we are going to get for some time.
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Pretty clear First Amendment compelled-speech case. The government may not compel a speaker to say a bunch of false things (the supposed "warnings" are lies; and arguably even defamatory ones) as a condition of being permitted to speak.
The 2018 NIFLA v. Becerra is the most recent Supreme Court case on compelled speech, and it does not look favorable to this sort of thing.
I doubt that. Cigarette companies have to include warning labels as per the courts and there’s a mountain of evidence that porn can be harmful to people.
Go look at what speech they're compelling. It's outright defamatory.
Yeah lol
Or, that exposure to porn “is associated with low self-esteem and body image eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.” Note how they use the term “exposure” as if a person watching porn was exposed to a real disease.
Not to mention
“The statements on science effects are just false, they have never been shown,” said Prause in an email to me. She elaborated that the “science” referred to in House Bill 1181 is “completely fabricated.” “APA and WHO both rejected sex and pornography as addictions because they are not. The bill flies in the face of scientific consensus.”
Everything is bigger in Texas. Including outright fabrication
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For the lazy:
HB 1181 would issue public health warnings including claims that porn use “increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography.” Claims that are included in the health warnings laid out by the bill suggest that porn use is “potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.” Or, that exposure to porn “is associated with low self-esteem and body image eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.” Note how they use the term “exposure” as if a person watching porn was exposed to a real disease.
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Damn, people should stop having sex at all. Don't let people view media that shows examples of sex
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What in the hell is happening across the country right now? Why are we getting all of these short sighted, personal-liberty-violating, bullshit laws popping up?
We let the South off to easy and they been slowly poisoning America from within.
We learned nothing from Reconstruction.
Honest opinion: The republican party is flailing and trying to "accomplish" anything they possibly can regardless of the actual benefits to citizens.
The Supreme Court is heavily in favor of "states rights" now, so state politicians know they can cater to special interest groups (for donations of course) with impunity. States are heavily gerrymandered, so they have little risk of losing their position. In some cases, such as book, education, voting, and immigration laws, the goal is to further ensure the states remain Republican in the future (prevent children from growing up "woke," and prevent immigrants from living there, which tend to vote Dem). Democracy in the U.S. is pretty broken, and is slowly being dismantled further.
Banning porn has been on the Republican agenda since like the 40s.
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How "small government" of them.
For retaliation, just block texas IPs. That shit will be fast tracked
Nah pornhub etc just need to release the number of ip pings they get from texas government locations.
They absolutely have this info
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Warning: Residency in the state of Texas may result in the inability to function as a decent human being.
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That's fine if we have a sign when entering Texas warning us of all the dangerous things there compared to where they were coming from
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What's an example of a health warning for looking at naked humans? Seriously someone explain what they mean because it doesn't make any sense.
"Those movies are performed by trained professionals, do not attempt to replicate at home."
Porn is just not naked humans. It's not like art. And the behavior in those movies rubs off on teenage guys, so they start to behave like in the movies.
I mean, I still think adding health warning is stupid, but at the same time, we can't pretend porn doesn't influence people.
The behavior of the actors in porn does not "rub off on" (lol) on the viewer any more than violent movies rub off on the viewer.
I'd be more concerned about the guys watching the assholes on YouTube making videos about how to be an "alpha male".
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There is room to talk about the handful parts of porn, but this certainly isn't the way to do it. Porn doesn't increase anyone's desire for a prostitute or pedophilia. That's just insane. There could be evidence that it reduces one's self esteem, but we'd have to study that. This is just Texas furthering the nanny state and actively requiring lying to people. Again.
Porn actually helped me further my skills in building automation. It gave me a target for learning to scrape websites. Of all the things I've built for myself, this was one of the most generous projects in that I had tons of room for refinement as my skills grew.
Texas is moving to protect against the Communist infiltration comming for our precious bodily fluids.
Could the Texas government also post a list of all the hazardous sites in one place so i know which sites to avoid?
Warning: masturbating may cause post nut clarity. Viewer discretion is advised.
The article is a couple months old. I’ve read a couple similar articles in the past, but more recent ones don’t seem to mention the warning. I’d have to look at HB 1181’s full text, but I suspect this language was removed before it passed.
Edit: nvm, Idk why I say shit before researching it. Looks like the language is in the bill as it was signed into law
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HB01181F.pdf#navpanes=0
See middle of page 4
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One of the health warnings:
...[exposure to porn] “is associated with low self-esteem and body image eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses..."
Ummmm but what about BBW? In all seriousness though, for these 'valid' health concerns associated with low self esteem ...isn't this the slippery slope towards modesty policing of women and women only in some of those fun countries??
Warning: You're in Texas.
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