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Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

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694 points macawfish | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.625s | source
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perihelions ◴[12 Jul 25 19:00 UTC] No.44544210[source]▶
There was a NYT article a couple weeks ago about Chinese morality police doing mass arrests of erotica authors,

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/world/asia/china-boys-lov... ("Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels") [note article contains large images of erotica novel covers]

But you'd *expect* that of the PRC; the US, wow, has it ever fallen fast and fallen hard.

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1. perihelions ◴[12 Jul 25 19:23 UTC] No.44544394[source]▶
But that is US law, as of literally just this week!

> "In fact, under the laws that the Supreme Court just upheld, prosecutors in Tennessee and South Dakota can even reach across state lines and prosecute writers on FELONY charges for a single paragraph of sexually-explicit writing on my site that they think "harmed" kids in their states, facing up to FIFTEEN years in prison, for failing to implement ID-checks on my dinky little free WordPress site."

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2. kurthr ◴[12 Jul 25 19:34 UTC] No.44544483[source]▶
I think that's the point of the article. The Supreme Court has Ruled:

   "prosecutors in Tennessee and South Dakota can even reach across state lines
   and prosecute writers on FELONY charges for a single paragraph of sexually-
   explicit writing on my site that they think "harmed" kids in their states,
   facing up to FIFTEEN years in prison, for failing to implement ID-checks on 
   my dinky little free WordPress site."