drugs are illegal and you can still get them at every corner.
We already had those types of people, which is why you had the Moralistic Right to begin with.
Prohibition all over again, hopefully with all the humiliation it implies for those who try it. Just like you can't hope to ban alcohol, porn is the same, especially as the latter is easier to mass produce, and has become much easier with time.
Laws would be passed, or at least called for, to restrict internet access for non-research or non-military uses.
Or far more VPN proxies than there are now. VPN traffic cannot be sniffed, so people would hide their activities with heavy crypto.
outlaw VHS,
bring back Betamax![]()
Unless VPNs and proxies like Tor are also banned as well - at least for non-military use.
One thing that mght have also happened would have been broadcast TV stations set up in Canada or Mexico near the US border to beam porn into the United States. A TV station in Canada or Mexico is not subject to any American laws.
I don't know about Mexico, but I know that given the way the Canadian TV market operates, the laws (even the ones in place at the time) would prevent any new licenced TV station from broadcasting porn, particularly if it's hard-core and if it's before 9:00 pm. Soft-core porn after 9:00 pm is OK, but definitely not hard-core. In some ways, the laws on that front are more restrictive in Canada than in the US.
I think if the antenna array had been placed with all the transmission being beamined towards the border, and made where virtually nobody in Canada could receive the transmission that might have been differnt. Just put the transmitter right on the border, with directional antennae that beam all the energy towards the USA. I think the Canadian government might have allowed that.
And given the the propensity of Pierre Tredeau to thumb his nose at American authrority, he just might well have allowed that.