. Most notably it is trying to beat back major changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — a shield for internet platforms that safeguards them from liability for what their users post. The provision has become a flashpoint for conservatives after former President Donald Trump seized on the issue as a means of firing back at the platforms that have policed his posts.
Nelson said that he signed with the Free Speech Coalition in June and would be paid $30,000 per quarter to lobby Congress and the executive branch, including the Treasury Department. So far, he has been meeting with lawmakers and their staff to address what he called “a huge vacuum of information” about the adult entertainment industry.
But it is concern about changes to internet regulations that is likely to draw more and more web-based operations and platforms into the influence peddling game. As a result, lawmakers have failed to reach any sort of widely-agreed upon consensus over what Section 230 reform legislation should look like. But the faceoff has created some remarkable fault lines: Trump and conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill versus Facebook, Twitter, and porn.
Though the Free Speech Coalition is new to Washington, the group dates back to the early 1990s, when it formed in response to a series of arrests. Back then, it was difficult to get a firm to take the Free Speech Coalition on as a client, said Jeffrey Douglas, its board chair and chairman emeritus of the First Amendment Lawyers Association. Still, the group became a force in California politics, where much of the industry’s production is located and where it built up a state lobbying arm.
Sex workers have been able to capitalize on platforms making their work safer and more independent. Anti-porn religious orgs and their mouthpieces like Kristof of the New York Times want to take that away and harm millions. It wasn’t an “expose” it was a sermon Hailey_Fuchs
What self-respecting porn star would get in bed with a DC lobbyist?
Cyril75799972 Reckon mattgaetz has suggested the lobbyist lower the age limit to 17.
This would be so easy, one's mind is overloaded. Just, oh wow.
I'm sure they've already had relations
Wonder how they are going to accomplish that?
The porn industry is in a predicament. You have the social conservatives controlling the republicans and the negative connotation of the industry being associated with sex trafficking which scares the democrats. They have a lot of ground work make in DC to bring about change.
IS this a picture of a porn or a lobbying firm?
Probably mattgaetz
Porn industry build relationship with D.C. lawmakers all the time
Hey. Porn stars are human, too.
From the Internet: Did you hear about the porn star who did bondage movies? She was strapped for cash.
Legalize prostitution & you won't have as many gun violence incidents.
Nothing like lobbyists getting free publicity that they would normally pay for, or wait....