As a lifetime member from europe, i am a bit concerned about IODA. My question is, does SLR have plans to secure their services even if IODA comes into effect?
SLR and IODA: Plans?
if i remember it would go against first amendment
What is IODA? Unclear to me when searching
I assume above me is talking about US amendments but SLR is not a US company.
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VRama Last I saw they are based in Europe. Don't think that has changed.
I'm doubtful that porn will get banned in the US. Even if it did, people will just make it illegally.
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VRama ah ok thanks
Where did you see its from the US?
At the bottom of the website and in the terms etc. it says its registered in Slovenia
Soooo what is this act supposed to do? Ban porn? Good fucking luck
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Symbolic or Messaging Function:
These bills often serve more as symbolic legislation—intended to express cultural values or rally political support—than as practical tools for policy change.
Conclusion:
No, acts like the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act have not been effective in the past in terms of being passed or leading to widespread enforcement. They are largely unsuccessful legislatively, constitutionally problematic, and function more as political statements than enforceable laws.
Mike Lee, the Senator who introduced this previously did so in 2022, and 2024. It didn't go anywhere then either.
His proposed law would also criminalise partners sending sexy pictures between each other. It's ridiculous and will not get the support needed to get off the ground.
Expect him to introduce it again next year, or whenever he needs a bump in the polls.
NetChoice, The Free Speech Coalition and The Woodhull Freedom Foundation frequently campaign against laws like this, and litigate against them if they ever actually get passed.
TL;DR - This is a bad law written by a guy with an unhealthy interest in everyone else's sex life. It's not going anywhere.
Would it even affect internet porn? They’re not physically sending the content across state lines in the same way people did with vhs/dvds, they’re just posting stuff to the internet and the other person is choosing to log on and look at it. Surely it would be up to those states to block access to porn, not up to porn companies to stop putting it up on the worldwide web.
The USA, in common with most countries, has laws against "obscene" publications. Publishing is interpreted very broadly, and would include internet distribution.
Crucially, in the USA "obscene" material is not protected by the First Amendment, following the 1973 ruling in Miller v California.
Lee is targeting the Miller Test from that case. This is a three part test used to decide if something is "obscene" or not.
- Whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest
- Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law
- Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Lee is trying to get rid of the first part, and remove the "patently offensive" test and instead define as obscene anything which
...depicts, describes or represents actual or simulated sexual acts with the objective intent to arouse, titillate, or gratify the sexual desires of a person
Again, this isn't going to go anywhere. The USA isn't a theocracy, even if some lawmakers wish it was.