Last week, several Republican representatives in Michigan introduced a bill that would ban porn — and a host of other content online.
The Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, House Bill 4938 , is primarily sponsored by Rep. Josh Schriver and includes fellow Republican representatives Joseph Pavlov, Matthew Maddock, James DeSana, Joseph Fox, and Jennifer Wortz.
The Anticorruption of Public Morals Act would prohibit sharing, distributing, selling, or hosting "certain material" on the internet. The bill's list includes pornography in the form of videos, erotica, magazines, stories, manga, AI-generated material, live feeds, and sound clips, but doesn't stop there.
"Prohibited material" described in the bill includes visual (real, animated, or digitally created), written, and audio depic