There's a bipartisan bill called SISEA that is being pushed by a religious organization called Exodus Cry, whose mission is to ban porn and the sex industry at large. The bill was introduced to Congress on December 17th and is meant to make it extremely expensive and difficult for websites to host porn. If this bill is passed, Reddit will either have to spend a lot of money to keep hosting porn on their site or they'll do what I think is more likely to happen and purge all porn subreddits, just like Tumblr did with their porn blogs. And given that Reddit has stopped displaying ads on NSFW subreddits and are no longer including NSFW search results in the new site layout, it seems like they would probably not try to keep hosting porn if the bill is passed. Either way, anything that there isn't proper verification release forms for would be purged, hentai included.

SISEA appears to be retroactive to past content, so platform owners would still need to supply the information consent list. Without that consent list, a $1,000 fine per day would be imposed if platform owners fail to comply within the two-week timeframe.

Source: https://www.xbiz.com/news/256469/apag-holds-meeting-to-discuss-possible-impact-of-sisea-bill

Even absent these financial penalties, the 24-hour hotline, two-hour removal window, and database requirements are so onerous and expensive that most, if not all, websites would be forced to stop hosting pornography altogether.

Source: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/sisea-internet-porn/

SISEA would require platforms with pornographic material to verify all uploaders' identities, age, & provide a signed consent form from all individuals appearing in porn. This includes past & present adult material.

Source: https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1340348828566876162

This introduces severe staffing costs for sites that already have strong, ethical DIY porn scenes, like Reddit. Suddenly, if Reddit still wants to host GoneWild, it needs to feverishly document every single uploader's PI. It's creating new problems w/o solving old ones

Source: https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1340351316045025283

The biggest issue about this law is that it actually changes the age of consent for filming porn to be based on states consent laws-even states with married underage laws! In states where the consent law allows for child brides/grooms, they could potentially be allowed to upload their own adult material, superseding existing 18 laws- this has been confirmed with lawyers!

Source: https://twitter.com/APAGunion/status/1341956681022930944

The bill also demands that websites make sure that content is not downloadable which is something the websites have been trying to do for years without success and it's also technically impossible. Everything you see in your browser is temporarily downloaded into your browser's cache. In order for a website to function it has to be briefly downloaded onto your computer.

The verification and release forms also applies to hentai, so I'm not sure how that is supposed to work.

Make sure to contact your two senators and let them know why this is not the way to tackle the issue. The easiest and fastest way to do this is to use Resistbot via SMS, iMessage, Messenger, Twitter, or Telegram to sign and send an open letter to your representative. Advice on what to write can be found here and here. Make sure to also spread the news to like-minded people.

Follow the bill through Congress: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/5054

Learn more about SISEA:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/sisea-internet-porn/

https://philadelphiaweekly.com/the-war-on-sexual-content/

https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1340338322326106112

https://www.xbiz.com/news/256469/apag-holds-meeting-to-discuss-possible-impact-of-sisea-bill

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ask_Lawyers/comments/khvbl0/what_is_the_likely_impact_of_the_stop_internet/

https://old.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/kicjq4/why_is_sisea_bad/ggsdbyo/

Let's say the worst happens and Reddit completely bans porn, /r/gonewildaudio included. What can we do?

This law only applies to the sites hosted in the US, so that gives us quite a bit of wiggle room. Note that everything mentioned below is completely legal. As I see it there are two options:

We self-host a lemmy instance (open source Reddit clone with federation) using a non-American hosting provider that has servers located outside of the US and allows adult content. Thanks to the CLOUD Act a server hosted overseas by an American company would not work for this. There are very affordable hosting providers in the France and the Netherlands. The Netherlands is the better jurisdiction of the two, but France should work just fine. Germany is strict with age verification laws and is also a bit too fond of Internet censorship, so that's a no-go. The domain registrar should also be a company that isn't based in the US, just to be safe. I have some ideas there if we get this far. (I can't set up the site though, that is above my abilities). The SSL certificate is free thanks to Let's Encrypt. Whoever ends up running the platform should have a backup solution in place in case the server has a hard drive/SSD crash. Borg Backup would probably be good, then just hook that - or whatever other backup system is chosen - up to a cloud storage provider (or even better, multiple cloud storage providers) or another server from a different hosting provider.

or

We find a Reddit alternative that isn't too extreme, allows adult content, and is hosted outside of the US by a hosting provider that isn't American and then we hope that the site doesn't shut down within a few years (which might very well happen).

Soundgasm is safe since it's that it's hosted in Canada by a French hosting provider.

We need to come up with a plan on where to migrate to if this happens. We should make a simple site hosted overseas (either self-hosted or by a NSFW friendly service) where we can announce a replacement site if this subreddit gets purged and introduce it soon into the sidebar and in a stickied thread so that people have time to notice it and bookmark it.

No matter what we do, we keep the current verification and content rules so that the new site doesn't have any content that could get the site into trouble and we keep it as well-moderated as /r/gonewildaudio. We'll make it the role model of what an ethically responsible adult community looks like, just like /r/gonewildaudio.