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\nFriday, February 2nd, 2024<\/p>\n
For further information, please contact: Georgia Green Party Expresses Conditional Support for HB-910 On Thursday of this week, the officers of the Georgia Green Party sent a statement of conditional support for HB-910 (LC 56 0039), a bill intended to create a \u201ccivil remedy for damages against commercial entities that distribute material harmful to minors without performing age verification\u201d.\u00a0 The testimony was offered on the initiative of first term party co-chair Kristin Zebrowski and supported unanimously by the party officers.<\/p>\n The letter expresses the party\u2019s \u201cbroad support for this bill\u2019s intention to protect Georgia children from child abuse and our conditional support for the particulars of this bill\u201d.\u00a0 It goes on to express a handful of concerns for the specifics of this narrowly scoped legislative proposal.\u00a0 The letter states \u201cwe would welcome an opportunity to consider legislation which seeks to remedy the harms to the so-called \u2018performers\u2019 who the evidence suggests are often victims of trafficking and exploitation, to the consumers (regardless of age), to their families and to the treatment and status of women and girls, generally.\u201d\u00a0 It goes on to also \u201curge the formation of a study committee to examine the (pornography) industry and to recommend for consideration in the coming legislative term appropriate comprehensive state regulation to protect the health and welfare of Georgia citizens\u201d from that industry.<\/p>\n The full text of the Party\u2019s testimony on the subject is published to the website at a link below.<\/p>\n \u2013 30 \u2013<\/p>\n Party offers conditional support to HB-910, to protect minors from exposure to Pornography Image credit: CultureReframed.com<\/a>. For more information, visit https:\/\/culturereframed.org\/courses\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Georgia Green Party Expresses Conditional Support for HB-910 On Thursday of this week, the officers of the Georgia Green Party sent a statement of conditional support for HB-910 (LC 56 0039), a bill intended to create a \u201ccivil remedy for damages against commercial entities that distribute material harmful to minors without performing age verification\u201d.\u00a0 The testimony was offered on the initiative of first term party co-chair Kristin Zebrowski of Gwinnett County, supported unanimously by the party officers.<\/p>\n The letter expresses the party\u2019s \u201cbroad support for this bill\u2019s intention to protect Georgia children from child abuse and our conditional support for the particulars of this bill\u201d.\u00a0 It goes on to express a handful of concerns for the specifics of this narrowly scoped legislative proposal.\u00a0 The letter states \u201cwe would welcome an opportunity to consider legislation which seeks to remedy the harms to the so-called \u2018performers\u2019 who the evidence suggests are often victims of trafficking and exploitation, to the consumers (regardless of age), to their families and to the treatment and status of women and girls, generally.\u201d\u00a0 It goes on to also \u201curge the formation of a study committee to examine the (pornography) industry and to recommend for consideration in the coming legislative term appropriate comprehensive state regulation to protect the health and welfare of Georgia citizens\u201d from that industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\npress.secretary@georgiagreenparty.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>to require age-verification for distribution of pornography to minors<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\nGaGP–expresses_conditional_support–HB-910–LC-56-0039–20240131<\/a><\/p>\n
\nto require age-verification for distribution of pornography to minors<\/p>\n