Topic: Pornography
“Look at America under the ruling and cultural elite today: Inflation is ravaging family budgets, drug overdose deaths continue to escalate, and children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries.”
This is baseless fearmongering and bigotry.
Roberts goes on to say that after the 1970’s, the political right led the United States to “historic political, economic, and global victories.”
Fact check: The economy does better under Democratic leadership, and always has. The New York Times reported in February 2021 that: “Since 1933, the economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.6 percent under Democratic presidents and 2.4 percent under Republicans.” [Source]
Contextual analysis of foreword here.
“…its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.”
Oh? Child predators, all? Someone needs to check Kevin’s hard drive for the type of porn he’s watching. He adds that educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. I promise, no public librarians are purveyors of actual child porn, but if they were, I can agree with this point. The problem here is allowing people like Kevin to broadly couch things like even innocuous stories about LGBTQ families as this type of material.
Full contextual analysis of the foreword here.
“Similarly, Congress could legislate in a way that does not require any platform to host illegal content; child pornography; terrorist speech; and indecent, profane, or similar categories of speech that Congress has previously carved out.”
Note here that he doesn’t mention “harmful” speech, which is often included in these discussions. That indicates to me that this was indeed at least partially about COVID misinformation. They’re trying to argue that Trump telling people to eat aquarium cleaner (hydroxychloroquine) is protected free speech, even though it killed people and sent others to the hospital8.
“Although clinical trials have not verified either antimalarial drug’s effectiveness as a treatment for COVID-19, in his press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump said, “It could be a game changer” for COVID-19.” The couple might have turned to the fish product because they couldn’t get the drugs indicated for human consumption.
“The woman told NBC News she had seen a televised briefing in which Mr Trump discussed the potential benefits of chloroquine as a treatment Covid-19.” [Source]9
Speech that physically harms others is typically couched under incitement of violence, and it is NOT protected by the First Amendment right to free speech. Anti-vax rhetoric actually harmed people. Anti-government rhetoric actually harmed people on January 6. None of these should be protected.
Full contextual analysis of Section 5.2: Federal Communications Commission here.