Half the country has enacted age-verification laws to prevent minors from viewing porn.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    I want a lying as a representative of the people tax. Kinda like a swear jar, but for public representatives and their official channels.

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      No I want that to be a capital offense.

      If they’re able to prove in a court of law that you knowingly lied to constituents, off with your head.

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        It will be abused by the opposite party who will claim small lies count and start lopping off heads. Similar to the “fraud” charges the doj is trying to use against comey and james.

        Fake charges are bullshit when they can take money and time from you. Imagine if they can take your life instead.

        The death penalty isn’t the end all be all that people think since the wind can blow the other direction and power swings with it.

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    Tax all churches. None of them get a non-profit status. It’s a business that uses ‘religion’ as a shield to shove it’s ‘morals’ on the rest of society. Taxing porn is just another way that religion is deciding what freedoms you get regardless of the Constitutional freedom of Speech. It’s forcing you to participate in the ‘religious laws’ of a specific religion.

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      the bill would impose a 7 percent tax on total receipts “from sales, distributions, memberships, subscriptions, performances, and content amounting to material harmful to minors that is produced, sold, filmed, generated, or otherwise based” in Utah

      Based on the text, it should

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    They’ve admitted what they really want is to outright ban porn, so it’s all just trying to push it as close to that as they can get

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    “World shocked as children learn to torrent. ‘I thought we could actually stop people from accessing things on the internet’ one dumbshit was quoted as saying…”