A bill set to be introduced next month would ban consuming or producing sexual content and punish offenders with prison sentences of up to 20 years and $25,000 fines.

this country is so fucking cool

    • rjthyen@lemm.ee
      84·
      10 months ago

      But the differences are slight. Maybe won’t go as far down the oppression of women rabbit hole, but not for lack of trying. Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        10 months ago

        Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.

        These women in Iran just before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 probably thought they were too far past it, too.

          • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
            162·
            10 months ago

            Iran. Even if the British and American interference was abhorrent, an Islamic Fascist state wasn’t the only alternative they had.

            Putting all the agency (and therefore responsibility) in imperial powers is also a form of imperialism.

          • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
            143·
            10 months ago

            Iran caused that revolution. They were fed up with a leader seen as a western puppet so they replaced him with religious extremist.