INTERNET FREEDOM

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A man wearing a beanie sits on a bus, looking down at his phone. He is wearing earbuds.

CAPTION: We’re gonna show you how two separate acts within Project 2025 combine for an absurd and, by extension, genuinely evil intention.

CAPTION: So we start here. Say you’re into music…

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A hand with neatly-manicured nails touches a phone screen. An app is playing “Walk on the Wild Side” by Lou Reed, and we see a partial image of Reed holding his guitar on the album cover for “Transformer.”  A cup of coffee sits to the left of the hand.

CAPTION: …or audiobooks, or podcasts, or YouTube shorts, or Instagram stories or TikToks, it doesn’t matter because this applies in all of those cases and more.

CAPTION: For now, let’s say music. Let’s say you’re into Lou Reed.

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A black woman with braids and a white man with glasses are dancing in the open floor plan of their high-rise apartment. We see a city skyline through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

CAPTION: Let’s say you’re enjoying his 1972 album, “Transformer.”

CAPTION: You and a friend, just digging “Take a Walk on the Wild Side.”

CAPTION: It’s a classic, after all.

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Three riot cops break down a door, shattering it into splinters. The officer in front is holding a pistol and a shield.  The dancers from the previous panel are in the foreground of the panel, looking shocked and terrified as the police burst in on them.

CAPTION: Except you’ve just committed a crime. “Walk on the Wild Side” is classified as pornography under Project 2025.

CAPTION: Why? Because in the song after Holly shaves her legs, “he was a she.” Any mention of gender identity is “pornographic” according to Project 2025.

CAPTION: Gets better. If it was your copy and you were playing it for a friend? Under Project 2025, you’re guilty of distributing pornography and you’re going to prison.

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A fully black panel with caption boxes.

CAPTION: We wish we were making this up. This insanity starts on Day One of a Trump administration.

CAPTION: “Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders.

CAPTION: “And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.” [P2025, p. 5]

CAPTION: So that’s the absurd part. Here comes the evil.

PAGE TWO

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A woman wearing a hijab sits cross-legged on an armchair, a computer on her lap and a steaming mug at her side.

CAPTION: That last sentence, about “telecommunications and technology firms”? That goes to something called Section 230.

CAPTION: Section 230 is part of the Communications Act of 1934, enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, often shortened to simply the CDA.

CAPTION: Here’s why Section 230 is important.

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Over the shoulder of a person wearing headphones, we see a copyright warning on a computer screen. It’s a black screen with an exclamation point in a circle and the text “Video unavailable. Content REMOVED for copyright violation.”

CAPTION: It states specifically that no provider or user of an interactive computer service is liable as “publisher or speaker” if acting in “good faith.”

CAPTION: So, if you had downloaded “Walk on the Wild Side” from Apple Music, this means Apple is safe. You take the fall, not them.

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A white man with sunglasses looks down at his phone in a coffee shop. Behind him, we see a chalkboard menu and a barista hard at work.

CAPTION: The next Trump administration plans to issue “an order that interprets Section 230…in a way that eliminates the expansive, non-textual immunities that courts have read into the statute.” [P2025, p. 825-826]

CAPTION: Remember that ever-expanding definition of pornography?

CAPTION: So if you download the latest episode of your favorite podcast or buy a new ebook for your Kindle…

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A close up of a phone screen. We see a black box with a caution triangle and the words “SUSPENDED FOR PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT.”

CAPTION: …and there is anything in it that violates Project 2025’s incredibly broad definition of what you’re allowed to enjoy…

CAPTION: …it’s not only you who will be breaking the law…

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An ominous boardroom, backlit, with a group of looming businessmen in silhouette. We only see their menacing white grins, white dots for eyes, and the whiteness of the shirts they wear under identical suits. Past them, out the window, we can see Wall Street skyscrapers.

CAPTION: …but the providers and the content creators who will comply, if only to protect their bottom line.

CAPTION: Without Section 230’s protections, everything online will become fair game for censorship.

CAPTION: Blog posts, newsletters, Instagram Shorts, all of it will be censored. And once you do that…

Panel 6

A barbed wire fence into a concentration camp. Various terrified citizens are held behind the barbed wires next to a barracks, wearing prison uniforms. In the foreground, outside of the camp, we see two heavily-armed and armored guards wearing red baseball caps and red armbands with the letter “T” on them.

CAPTION: …it’s very, very easy to do it to everyone who doesn’t share Project 2025 and Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda.