{"id":3945,"date":"2026-07-11T17:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:12:15","slug":"fcc-general-counsel-channels-founding-fathers-to-falsely-claim-first-amendment-allows-banning-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/fcc-general-counsel-channels-founding-fathers-to-falsely-claim-first-amendment-allows-banning-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also calls for the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/pill-anthony-comstocks-chastity-laws\/\">Comstock laws<\/a> and the patchwork of anti-vice statutes that were historically used to prosecute individuals for \u201cobscene\u201d devices, the transmission of \u201cprurient\u201d content, and other prohibitions that lasted into the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most alarming, he views the high court\u2019s 6-3 decision in the <em>Paxton<\/em> case as an <em>optimistic<\/em> but quite unclear step to modern Comstock prosecutions in state-level courts:<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2026\/07\/10\/fcc-general-counsel-channels-founding-fathers-to-falsely-claim-first-amendment-allows-banning-porn\/\">Techdirt <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report also calls for the return of Comstock laws and the patchwork of anti-vice statutes that were historically used to prosecute individuals for \u201cobscene\u201d devices, the transmission of \u201cprurient\u201d content, and other prohibitions that lasted into the 20th century. Most alarming, he views the high court\u2019s 6-3 decision in the Paxton case as an &#8230; <a title=\"FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/fcc-general-counsel-channels-founding-fathers-to-falsely-claim-first-amendment-allows-banning-porn\/\" aria-label=\"More on FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,296,146,472,74,574,743,270,109],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion","tag-anti-lgbtq","tag-comstock-act","tag-fcc","tag-first-amendment","tag-obscene-materials","tag-pornography","tag-project-2025","tag-women-of-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}