PATTAYA, Thailand – This week on the Adult Site Broker Talk podcast, the show brings you part two of an interview with attorney Jeffrey Douglas, Chair of the Free Speech Coalition Board of Directors and Chairman Emeritus of the First Amendment Lawyers Association.
As in the first part of the interview, Douglas covered a wide range of topics, including the status and origin of the federal recordkeeping laws commonly referred to as “2257.”
“There’s never been a hearing in Congress on 2257,” Douglas noted. “Not one. There’s never been a witness called. It was added into the law in an omnibus crime bill in 1980-something or other and they never held a hearing on it. But, in conference you can get anything into an omnibus bill. And in all of the amendments that have happened to it since, it’s the exact same way. So, 2257 is the misbegotten child of just a handful of legislators. They require the FBI to enforce it, and the FBI doesn’t want to. So, on the enforcement end, with the exception of that brief period where everyone was scared of it, but nothing came of it.”
“In part two of our interview, Jeffrey talked about many subjects, including the Free Speech Coalition’s importance and the mounting war on porn,” said Bruce the adult site broker, host of the show and CEO of Adult Site Broker.
In the conversation, Douglas also touched on the FSC’s lobbying efforts, noting that the organization is better equipped to fund lobbying efforts these days than in the past – and that the FSC is better received on Capitol Hill than one might assume.
“We’re seeing real progress and the thing that is most notable to everyone, including our lobbyists, is how well we are received in every office,” Douglas said. “And we have been in the offices of extreme conservatives who have made hostility towards commercialized sex a centerpiece. And when we go into their office, we’re not talking to them. We’re talking to their aid, but we’re talking to their most senior aid and they’re listening to us and they’re engaging in dialogue with us. It’s really quite inspiring about how the political process can work, even when Congress itself is so profoundly dysfunctional.”
You can listen to part two of Adult Site Broker Talk’s conversation with Douglas now, on AdultSiteBrokerTalk.com.
