In 1921:
• Tulsa race riots
• Adolf Hitler chairman of Nazi party
• The Great Russian Famine
• Organized Crime under prohibition
• Ellis island quarantined for typhus
• Roosevelt contracts polio at 39
• CCP Forms under Mao
• Cigarrette tax
• Sleeping sickness kills 1000 in US
• KKK gets very violent
• Tulsa race riots
• Adolf Hitler chairman of Nazi party
• The Great Russian Famine
• Organized Crime under prohibition
• Ellis island quarantined for typhus
• Roosevelt contracts polio at 39
• CCP Forms under Mao
• Cigarrette tax
• Sleeping sickness kills 1000 in US
• KKK gets very violent
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the Meme Team has an important PSA for you all to read. i know it's long, but honestly, it's worth reading.
Imagine logging on to your favorite social media platform and being unable to look at furry porn, murrsuit posters, or adult clips from your favorite sex workers. This, unfortunately, may soon be a reality if the U.S. Congress has its way.
This December, Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Ben Sasse introduced a bipartisan bill called the “Stop Internet Sexual Exploitation Act,” or SISEA. If it passes through the U.S. Congress, it could cause real and illustrated porn alike to disappear from Twitter, Patreon, OnlyFans, and FurAffinity, among other websites.
Under the legislation, any "online platform" that hosts pornographic images for public consumption would be forced to staff their own 24-hour hotline for reporting nonconsensual pornography. If an adult image is reported, sites have a mandatory two-hour period to remove the offending material.
Any user who uploads a pornographic image would have to have their identity verified by the site. They would also need to upload a signed consent form from every model for every single porn image, confirming each photo was shot and posted consensually. Sites that do not comply with these rules would face legal liability from the FTC.
On the surface, this may sound like a good thing. Revenge porn is a serious problem. So is pirated porn, child sexual abuse material, and exploitative work conditions in the adult industry. But the bill’s demands are extremely strenuous on social media websites. In their current state, social media websites like Twitter and OnlyFans cannot be omnipresent actors approving all content as it comes in: it’s simply way too expensive to implement, let alone bureaucratically complicated. But SISEA’s costly legal threats make these systems a necessity.
This puts social media platforms in a bind with only one clear solution: avoid the legal risk and financial strain by just getting rid of porn. Problem solved. If SISEA becomes a law, sex workers, adult content creators, and internet watchdogs fear social media platforms will do just that: ban adult content.
These changes, by the way, wouldn’t just apply to sex workers’ content. The bill defines a "pornographic image" as "any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture" of "sexually explicit conduct," regardless of whether that material was "produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means.” This terminology is extremely vague. Without any clarification otherwise, the use of the term “computer-generated” seemingly implies that adult illustrations fall under SISEA’s regulations. Thus, social media websites that host illustrated pornography must implement these content moderation structures too.
In other words, SISEA isn’t just about OnlyFans and Pornhub. FurAffinity, Patreon, and Twitter would be forced to either implement SISEA’s financially rigorous systems, or ban pornographic art outright. Expect them to choose the latter.
Whether by design or otherwise, SISEA could bring about an end to freely accessible pornography online: particularly freely accessible pornography by independent kinky, queer, and furry creators. As FurAffinity's site lead director Dragoneer said: “The bill is an outright clusterfuck that seeks massive censorship of the net as we know it."
There are things you can do right now to stop SISEA. If you’re in the U.S., contact your local senators. Call them, write to them, or send them an email. Let them know you are watching their vote on SISEA carefully, and it could dictate your support for their reelection campaign in the years ahead. If you don’t know who your senators are, check out GovTrack to quickly find out. I’ve provided a link attached to this post.
The second best thing you can do is get the word out: screengrab this post and spread it far and wide, from Twitter to Tumblr to FurAffinity. There are sources below with more information to further verify what this post says, which I highly encourage you share.
Imagine logging on to your favorite social media platform and being unable to look at furry porn, murrsuit posters, or adult clips from your favorite sex workers. This, unfortunately, may soon be a reality if the U.S. Congress has its way.
This December, Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Ben Sasse introduced a bipartisan bill called the “Stop Internet Sexual Exploitation Act,” or SISEA. If it passes through the U.S. Congress, it could cause real and illustrated porn alike to disappear from Twitter, Patreon, OnlyFans, and FurAffinity, among other websites.
Under the legislation, any "online platform" that hosts pornographic images for public consumption would be forced to staff their own 24-hour hotline for reporting nonconsensual pornography. If an adult image is reported, sites have a mandatory two-hour period to remove the offending material.
Any user who uploads a pornographic image would have to have their identity verified by the site. They would also need to upload a signed consent form from every model for every single porn image, confirming each photo was shot and posted consensually. Sites that do not comply with these rules would face legal liability from the FTC.
On the surface, this may sound like a good thing. Revenge porn is a serious problem. So is pirated porn, child sexual abuse material, and exploitative work conditions in the adult industry. But the bill’s demands are extremely strenuous on social media websites. In their current state, social media websites like Twitter and OnlyFans cannot be omnipresent actors approving all content as it comes in: it’s simply way too expensive to implement, let alone bureaucratically complicated. But SISEA’s costly legal threats make these systems a necessity.
This puts social media platforms in a bind with only one clear solution: avoid the legal risk and financial strain by just getting rid of porn. Problem solved. If SISEA becomes a law, sex workers, adult content creators, and internet watchdogs fear social media platforms will do just that: ban adult content.
These changes, by the way, wouldn’t just apply to sex workers’ content. The bill defines a "pornographic image" as "any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture" of "sexually explicit conduct," regardless of whether that material was "produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means.” This terminology is extremely vague. Without any clarification otherwise, the use of the term “computer-generated” seemingly implies that adult illustrations fall under SISEA’s regulations. Thus, social media websites that host illustrated pornography must implement these content moderation structures too.
In other words, SISEA isn’t just about OnlyFans and Pornhub. FurAffinity, Patreon, and Twitter would be forced to either implement SISEA’s financially rigorous systems, or ban pornographic art outright. Expect them to choose the latter.
Whether by design or otherwise, SISEA could bring about an end to freely accessible pornography online: particularly freely accessible pornography by independent kinky, queer, and furry creators. As FurAffinity's site lead director Dragoneer said: “The bill is an outright clusterfuck that seeks massive censorship of the net as we know it."
There are things you can do right now to stop SISEA. If you’re in the U.S., contact your local senators. Call them, write to them, or send them an email. Let them know you are watching their vote on SISEA carefully, and it could dictate your support for their reelection campaign in the years ahead. If you don’t know who your senators are, check out GovTrack to quickly find out. I’ve provided a link attached to this post.
The second best thing you can do is get the word out: screengrab this post and spread it far and wide, from Twitter to Tumblr to FurAffinity. There are sources below with more information to further verify what this post says, which I highly encourage you share.
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We have a long road to go to stop SISEA from becoming a law. It will be an uphill battle even in the best circumstances. But if there’s one thing we have that Congress doesn’t, it’s massive numbers. Give it your all. Queer free expression is on the line. Don’t let it go down without a fight.
– Ana Valens
Additional sources:
Daily Dot article on SISEA: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/sisea-internet-porn/
SISEA text, PDF download: https://www.merkley.senate.gov/download/201820-stop-internet-sexual-exploitation-act-final-2020
Find your senators on GovTrack: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members
Dragoneer on SISEA: https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1340819947270905858
Thorough thread breaking down the law’s text: https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1340338322326106112
Track SISEA’s progress through Congress: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/5054/text?r=4&s=3
– Ana Valens
Additional sources:
Daily Dot article on SISEA: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/sisea-internet-porn/
SISEA text, PDF download: https://www.merkley.senate.gov/download/201820-stop-internet-sexual-exploitation-act-final-2020
Find your senators on GovTrack: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members
Dragoneer on SISEA: https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/1340819947270905858
Thorough thread breaking down the law’s text: https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1340338322326106112
Track SISEA’s progress through Congress: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/5054/text?r=4&s=3
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