Porn warning labels bill becomes Utah law amid controversy

[TexasTowelie]

Pornography will have to come with a warning label in Utah after Gov. Gary Herbert allowed the measure to become law over protest from the adult-entertainment industry.

If producers don't include a one-sentence warning label on obscene materials about potential harm to minors, they could face a $2,500 penalty per violation. Herbert allowed the measure to become law without his signature on Wednesday.

The measure is aimed at helping people worried about the widespread availability of porn online, Republican sponsor Rep. Brady Brammer has said.

After criticism that the measure could be unconstitutional, it was aimed at porn deemed to be legally obscene. Most porn doesn't qualify, but hardcore material declared obscene doesn't have constitutional protections.

Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/04/porn-warning-labels-bill/

[msongs]

1. seems ive heard many times utah has the highest per capita use of porn nt

[Make7]

2. What is the legal definition of obscene?

Asking for a friend.

[ret5hd]

3. What you don't want your friends to know you eagerly watch when you are alone.

[rickford66]

4. I have a curious friend also.

Maybe someone could let us know what sites to avoid.

[RockRaven]

5. Sanctimonious hypocrites. Anti-porn state is the most porn-watching state in the country.

Boy, that one sentence warning label is going to do a lot!!!

Get your head out of your ass and do something useful with your life, Utah Repukes.

[Jake Stern]

6. On the balance of things

I'd rather my son see two consenting adults having sex than for him to ever set foot in an LDS/Catholic/Evangelical church.

[PJMcK]

7. I'm confused

In my vast experience, when porn was printed, i.e., Penthouse, Playboy, Huslter, etc., it was pretty clear what was inside and at some point the publishers put a warning or a cover on the magazines.

When porn evolved to videotapes and then DVDs, the boxes had a warning label on them as well as the infamous XXX "rating."

On the internet, some porn comes with an adults-only disclaimer but most doesn't. How do you put a "label" on a streamed video? I guess I could put a warning label on my laptop. How will the State of Utah enforce content that comes from outside their state's borders and probably from overseas? Or will they simply go after the local internet providers? That would be a ridiculous action!

With all of the other real problems in Utah, our country and the world, it's amazingly stupid that the Utah Legislature could spend their time, energy and money on something so frivolous as porn.