- Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee this week introduced a bill called the “Interstate Obscenity Definition Act,” which effectively would outlaw all sexual content online nationwide.
- Lee’s bill aims “to establish a national definition of obscenity that would apply to obscene content transmitted via interstate or foreign communications.”
- According to Lee’s office statement, the Utah senator believes that since “obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment and is prohibited from interstate or foreign transmission,” it is time to review the standards set in 1973 that eventually have allowed for the production and distribution of sexual content to be legal in the United States.
