I doubt something like this would ever pass.

Umm, It could.

Um, the bill is bipartisan. It was proposed by a Democrat and a Republican jointly. Plus, it's a "Save the children" type thing. Those are usually politically risky to oppose.

Now is the best time to write your member of congress, the new congress starts and with it a new evaluation of the proposed bills. If enough people write there are for sure changes in any bill that still have to be decided.

My congressmen are social conservatives. It'd be a waste of my time to write them... I'm stuck with Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.

Yeah, to write Ted Cruz is a waste of time. He is a Trump loyalist and believes the crap that tells Trump about election fraud.

One of the things that sucks about living in Texas... The people who run the place are horrendous...

I agree. I remember when someone in Arizona state congress tried put a Tax on porn. That didn't fly well.

If an orange-faced clown can become president, than anything can happen.

Take a look at this Twitter thread I made. I have a lot of info regarding this proposal: https://twitter.com/Jamie_Foxworthy.....90194497347584
And thanks for spreading the word, Pickles. Not enough people know about this.
And, for everybody else, don't say "Well, I don't live in the US, so it won't affect me". Because Fur Affinity operates out of the state of Virginia and has to follow US law.

Thank you! I literally just found out about it today, it feels like the whole bill is being snuck in but I'm trying to DM as many people with bigger platforms as I can

Thank you!

Wait what?!?!

This is a million times worse than Article 13.

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Just spread the word.

I will, but what should I say and title my journal?

I found this about it https://www.sitstayspeak.net/2020/1.....is-a-bad-bill/

Is there anything we can do? Petition or something?
Also if they do it, will it affect global?

There's this https://www.change.org/p/jeff-merkl.....t-from-passing

There's also writing to your representatives if you're American but I don't really know what else.

It will only have an effect on sites hosted in America. But unfortunately, that's a lot of sites. Including FurAffinity I believe.

I really doubt the makers of this law give a single shit about places like FurAffinity. It's more things like Twitter and other highly public social media outlets. Either way though, I see this being about as successful as the UN's multiple attempts to make anime illegal.

It's not about whether or not they'd give a shit (though I personally think they would). The danger is that this would give them the authority to shut FA down.
As for some positives in this situation, the law is unconstitutional. Lawyers have broken down why it would be illegal to enforce in the US. And that fact this law could potentially legalize porn of people under 18 (it has to do with informed consent and child marriage, which still happens in the US, it's a whole gross thing...) would make it a very bad look if they actually did try to pass it.
If this law did pass, it's possible that it would be immediately challenged and its effects put on hold while its sorted out in the courts. Honestly, I think the best case scenario is that the bill is ignored until the Congressional session comes to an end (which is this month) and is dropped.

*blinks* They tried to outlaw anime? Why?

No, it will also effect sites hosted by Americans. So now any site hosted in the US or run by a US company/person will have to stop or spends tens of thousands on implementing the bill that is about as vague can be... in 6 months or less.

I thought that was implied in my statement, but I agree that probably came out vaguer than it should have. You're right. This would apply to any American based person/company trying to host a site.

again old people who dont understand the internet mking laws about the internet

Stopping this thing is unlikely, but as seen with the Tillis bill regarding streamers you can change it for the better. If enough people voice their concern they are heard. The best case: The bill is postponed for years, the likely outcome: It passed, but changed and not so worse than before. The last outcome is what should be the end goal.

Admittedly this bill shows promise. It's for a semi good cause. And it just needs to trim the fat, that being all our livelihoods. Artists, viewer, we're all a consumer of pornography. But say if this bill passed. It'll most likely get buffed out. Because the bill on paper alone? Couldn't possibly work, it's literally impractical, banning all porn will just cause chaos and they know it. So with any luck, we may get our way or find another way around it. Bill, no bill a piece of fucking paper can't stop us from living. and if they really do expect us to sit while the world is burning and not have any porn? They're out of their fucking minds and we won't stand for it

I think they know it won't be able to ban all porn, but it's another garbage bill setup to push sex workers out of being able to work safely during a pandemic. It's the same thing when they tried to crack down on trafficking through craigslist but ended up just removing one of the easiest and safest ways for sex workers to find clients.

The requirement for any personal data of NSFW performers to be kept by a government database also puts nay undocumented sex workers at a huge risk. Also requiring the hosting sites to keep all the personal info of performers puts all the performers at a huge risk of having all their info become public if there's a leak, and the database doesn't account for the fact that many sex workers and non-sex workers alike want *nonconsensual* material of themselves pulled. The database creates a binary. Either you're a victim or you're a sex worker. You never get to be both.

Even if a large part of the bill gets cut, it's still another attempt to hurt sex workers in the name of "protecting the children" and the whole movement behind the bill is exodus Cry, a bunch of puritanical Evangelist pricks https://www.reddit.com/r/Pornhub/co.....xodus_cry_the/ .

Also the bill wouldn't prevent underage porn from being made in states with consent laws that allow for child briges/grooms.

Disgusting. Well I hope we'll be ok through this bill and it's just things like obvious porn sits that gets infected