Oh hey look at that, the thing that I was just this week saying would happen in america on a post about a Chinese erotica artist being arrested, is happening already. Im sure the idiot and/or fbi agent arguing with me about it being uniquely heinous Chinese authoritarianism will never see this. Congrats everyone, I gave it ten years it didnt even take 10 days. This is an occupation.

So can I sue websites that contain sexually explicit passages from the bible?

I saw this coming down Broadway. I pulled my writings weeks ago.

Ah, the Unbridled States of Assholes.

And of course lemmy's only response to this unprecedented judicial overreach is to fucking meme...

While I sympathize with the author, he can rest assured (sort of) that nobody's going to come after him or his "dinky little free WordPress site."

The goal is far more sinister than that. The actual point is simply to establish a precedent that people can be prosecuted for online content that is not in and of itself illegal. Sexual content was just a way to get the religious chucklefucks on board, and to hide a dangerous precedent behind a merely controversial mask.

The ultimate goal is simply to establish the precedent that a government can criminalize the dissemination online of content that's entirely legal in and of itself. Using this ruling as a precedent, governments can and will criminalize whatever content they want, and it should go without saying that the content they're going to most certainly criminalize is any and all content critical of themselves.

So the author can likely relax. There will undoubtedly be a few test cases so that they can get appealed up to a court that's corrupt enough to uphold the government's position and further cement and/or expand the precedent, but that'll be it, because then they'll turn their attention to the far more important (to them) task of silencing political opposition.

Talks of free speech coming from a Substack account is laughable. “Free to spread Nazi propaganda” is what they mean.

Substack actively helps platform and monetize Nazi content. They enable Nazi rhetoric to spread and to earn money off their racism.

I love how the Constitution means nothing at this point, and how Conservatives have completely abandoned any pretext of following it.

So we write a JS library that you can pull in with your favorite client-side JS package manager that pretends to do ID and face scanning, but just green-lights everything. It tells the user "ok, look at your screen and 3... 2... 1... ok, we got your face scan now hold your ID up to the screen and 3... 2... 1... yup, you're 100% over 18 all right, yessirree." And we only admit it's not actually doing shit in the fine fine print. And anyone can lock their content behind that and if the state of Mississippi or whoever comes after the website admin, the website has plausible deniability. "It's whaaaaaat? I was scammed? Really? It doesn't actually verify? Oh, well, I'm so very sorry Mr. state prosecutor sir, I never realized. I'll get that fixed right up. Wouldn't want innocent seventeen-and-a-half-year-olds exposed to any mention of... whispers: nudity."

Well that's really fucking bad. Zero reason to not use a VPN now, unless you like not having a usable internet.

There are wp plugins to ban ip addresses from states that seem harmful