http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/20/bill-would-end-online-porn-as-we-know-it-unless-you-pay-the-govt/
Lawmakers in Arizona and around a dozen other states are currently considering some form of legislation that would block pornography on computer and phones unless people pay a tax.
In fact, proponents of the porn tax are expected to introduce a bill at the federal level sometime this month, according to CBS 5.
Generally referred to as the Human Trafficking Prevention Act, the bill would require all internet-connected devices to be rigged with porn blocking software. Consumers who wish to rid the filter and view erotic content would have to pay a fee for every device.
Different states are introducing, to some degree, different versions of laws, so the details and language vary.
Advocates for the bill argue that it would greatly diminish child exploitation, domestic violence and human trafficking.
A video on the official advocacy website for the bill says "pornography is a public health crisis" asserting that since Utah declared it as such in April 2016, it has allowed "for folks to appreciate the fact that it needs to be regulated."
Reclassifying pornography from a moral question to a health question is important, according to the video, because it can purportedly harm mental, marital, emotional, sexual, and reproductive health.
"What we know about pornography is that it's addictive. It actually affects the brain," said Kathleen Winn, who works for the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network. "Like any drug, like an addiction, you need more and more and more of it to get the same reaction from it as the first time you saw it. So yes, I absolutely believe pornography is contributing to the growing criminal enterprise of sex trafficking."
Lawmakers in Arizona and around a dozen other states are currently considering some form of legislation that would block pornography on computer and phones unless people pay a tax.
In fact, proponents of the porn tax are expected to introduce a bill at the federal level sometime this month, according to CBS 5.
Generally referred to as the Human Trafficking Prevention Act, the bill would require all internet-connected devices to be rigged with porn blocking software. Consumers who wish to rid the filter and view erotic content would have to pay a fee for every device.
Different states are introducing, to some degree, different versions of laws, so the details and language vary.
Advocates for the bill argue that it would greatly diminish child exploitation, domestic violence and human trafficking.
A video on the official advocacy website for the bill says "pornography is a public health crisis" asserting that since Utah declared it as such in April 2016, it has allowed "for folks to appreciate the fact that it needs to be regulated."
Reclassifying pornography from a moral question to a health question is important, according to the video, because it can purportedly harm mental, marital, emotional, sexual, and reproductive health.
"What we know about pornography is that it's addictive. It actually affects the brain," said Kathleen Winn, who works for the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network. "Like any drug, like an addiction, you need more and more and more of it to get the same reaction from it as the first time you saw it. So yes, I absolutely believe pornography is contributing to the growing criminal enterprise of sex trafficking."
