Legal Implications
🚫Project 2025 aims to make romance novels illegal to possess, with penalties including 10-year prison sentences, $100,000 fines, and sex offender registry for authors, narrators, and booksellers.
📚Oklahoma Senate Bill 593 serves as a test case for Project 2025, potentially making any explicit content in romance novels a felony with up to 10 years imprisonment and $100,000 fines per book.
Scope and Impact
👥The proposed sex offender registry would apply to romance authors (including conservative favorites), librarians, and readers who download or possess AO3 stories, effectively making them felons.
🔍Project 2025's provisions would allow anyone, including toxic exes, abusive partners, and manipulative family members, to report romance authors and readers for felony charges and bounties.
Cultural Implications
📖The implementation of Project 2025 could significantly impact literary freedom, creative expression, and access to diverse literature in the United States.