from the the-censorship-police-are-getting-bolder dept
Another senior Trump administration official [Adam Candeub] is gleefully showing off his true colors: The current general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published an opinion column with the Heritage Foundation’s news outlet The Daily Signal calling for stronger obscenity regulation.
[…] Candeub proposes a supposed moral restoration of obscenity laws such that anything viewed through the lens of non-traditional sexual expression could be fair game for legislatures to heavily restrict or outright ban.
[…] Candeub works for the FCC and is backing a legal strategy that’s been used, historically, to aggressively prosecute women, LGBTQ+ individuals, entire communities of color, consensual sex workers, and pornographic and non-pornographic publishers for their speech.
This is the FCC presenting itself as the morality speech police.
“anything viewed through the lens of non-traditional sexual expression” is not about porn. This is clearly an attempt to outlaw existing as LGBTQ. These people believe that being transgender, or even just dressing in a way uncommon for your assigned gender, is a non-traditional sexual expression and that transgender people are perverts for being transgender in public.
LGBTQ+ expression is the canary in the coalmine. Once they suffocate that they’ll move on to the next thing: women’s rights, racial justice, political expression that isn’t pro-capitalist.