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Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet
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The anti gay part is the whole point. They're not protecting kids, they're protecting Christian control over kids (pay attention to who's actually doing all the child sex abuse)
This bill is unconstitutional, but we'll have to wait and see if the insurrection-appointed SCOTUS will do their job or if this is like a gifted RV sort of ruling.
Sure they can make being gay illegal. Now lets see them enforce it.
Armed queers bash back.
SocialistRA.org
Wait why is this anti gay?
As in, they can use anti-porn measures to block information from kids about homosexuality in general.
I'm confused. Wouldn't heterosexuality be sexual conduct too? And also block information about heterosexuality of the same nature to kids? How is this specially anti gay
The only way this could be considered anti gay if we're inferring the people in control choose what to block and are homophobic and biased enough to only block homosexual content. That'll fucking explode if it happened.
Also, porn is fucking unstoppable there will be plenty of all kinds of porn for all to see. No worries
TL;DR: IANAL, however, the document this bill references to define what content is harmful to children directly, verbatim defines sexual conduct as including "homosexuality" broadly
Okay so this bill is SB394 (linked above obviously) and it opens with the following
It carries on to later define "harmful to minors" in section h-3 as the following:
If we go look at K.S.A. 21-6402 we can find that it is regarding "Promotion to minors of material harmful to minors" and goes on to declare in section d-2 that "harmful to minors" refers to several things including sexual conduct (I'm omitting this full quote for brevity, you can find it in the linked document).
Now if we look a little further down, we can see that Kansas currently defines sexual content as defined in section d-8:
Considering all this, i think extremely reasonable to believe that this could outlaw LGBTQ+ content from being displayed openly online within Kansas
Edit: fixed sexual conduct/content mixups
I'm going to assume your repeating typos of "content" and "conduct" are accidental and you meant the same word for all times you used one of them...
Holy shit why the fuck is homosexuality in section d-8. It's an easy fix to just delete that one word.
Thanks for sharing and with such detail, honestly you've really outlined the issue and helped me see. The sexual conduct definition is horrendous
Why would they do that? The whole bill was made specifically to include that word.
"The cruelty is the point"
Have you lot considered storming the capitol building and taking over....
Oh yeh, right
Whoops, Yes it was a little past 1am when I wrote that I must've gotten them mixed up which switching back and forth between the documents. I'll double check and correct that in a moment.
I'm sincerely glad you actually read it all, the world can be a little fucked right now.
Yes, but if you only enforce the rules for "dirty homosexuals", it effectively is an anti-gay bill. Conservatives have proven time and time again that they're happy to selectively apply the rule of law in any way that suits them.
Big "if" in my opinion but I'm not a US citizen so I can't really say I'm sure about that.
The bill is a load of shit either way, the world is changing, you can't shield minors from porn.
I am a US citizen. I can assure you it'll be abused because similar bills already have been.
the abuse is the whole point.
It's not an 'if', it's an absolute guarentee. This isn't a new play, this has been their gameplan every single time they do these sort of things.
So according to the comments here, the entire American judicial system is homophobic.
I'm glad I'm not American, how awful.
yes, it's a known problem that one party has managed to 'stack' the entire judicial system with their judges.
literally decades old with no interruption.