The recent attempt by conservative lawmakers in the United States to impose targeted taxes on online pornography marks a decisive escalation in a long running legal and ideological conflict over speech, sexuality and state power. Framed as a public health intervention and politically marketed as child protection, these measures raise profound constitutional questions that reach far beyond the adult industry itself and into the foundations of modern free expression, fiscal neutrality and the rule of law in the digital age.

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