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Conservatives are coming for your Pornhub

joker44

In the wind

LA Times opinion piece by Matt Welch, editor-at-large at Reason magazine and a contributing writer to Opinion.

"While the rest of us were gearing up for the holiday season, a small group of conservatives was busy cranking up something a good deal less cheerful: a new war on pornography.

On Dec. 6, four members of Congress wrote a letter to Atty. Gen. William Barr, beseeching him to “declare the prosecution of obscene pornography a criminal justice priority,” and “bring prosecutions against the major producers and distributors of such material.”

...Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh suggested moving toward an outright ban on pornography.

...And at the Trumpy American Greatness website, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry disgorged a long Science-Based Case for Ending the Porn Epidemic, which if nothing else demonstrates that our public discourse epidemic of pronouncing things “epidemics” shows little sign of receding.

The new anti-porn movement isn’t without its amusements. “Conservatives must partner with anti-porn feminists,” Ahmari tweeted, then later deleted, last month. “We won’t agree on everything, but imagine how powerful such an alliance could be.”

...But these are the same people who also brought us a whole damn month last year of internecine conservative warfare over drag-queen story hour. They are itching to go on the offensive in the culture wars, whether on abortion or gender pronouns or porn, and they consider your constitutional objections to be about as relevant as stopping a tidal wave with a slide rule.

“The Founding generation,” Ahmari wrote last month, “would likely have reacted to [Pornhub] not with high-libertarian nostrums, but with tar and feathers.”

Full LATimes article: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/20…