Senator Mike Lee of Utah on Thursday introduced legislation that would impose strict new federal rules on adult sites and platforms, strongly echoing similar regulations imposed last year in North Carolina.
Anti-porn U.S. Senator Mike Lee has inserted himself into the controversy over recent nonconsensual AI content featuring pop singer Taylor Swift, by advocating for a new federal law that would mirror a current, extreme Utah law targeting consensual adult content.
Utah Senator Mike Lee (R) and Mormon activist Dawn Hawkins, CEO of religiously motivated anti-porn lobby NCOSE, are promoting the PROTECT Act, a proposed federal bill that would make adult websites liable for third-party content.
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled, 7-2, in favor of 18 U.S.C. §2252A(a)(3)(B), a key provision of the PROTECT Act of 2003 that 'generally prohibits offers to provide and requests to obtain child pornography.'
A federal appeals court struck down the pandering provision of the Protect Act, ruling that the provision, which makes it a crime to distribute material purported to contain obscene depictions of minors engaging in sexual activity, was overbroad.
