It does, in theory, apply to text, but there’s a relatively narrow scope of text that would fall within the intent of this law but that wouldn’t already be very obviously criminal activity under numerous other laws.
The intent of this (admittedly, bad) legislation is stated on its face… it is going to, in reality, fail utterly in protecting children from pornographic media while at the same time failing utterly to protect children from being [ab]used in pornographic media, and it will fail to do so spectacularly because it’s chosen the wrong approach a priori, but I don’t think it’s reasonably portrayed as a great threat to the texting freedoms of small blogs and forum users, either.
The intent of this (admittedly, bad) legislation is stated on its face… it is going to, in reality, fail utterly in protecting children from pornographic media while at the same time failing utterly to protect children from being [ab]used in pornographic media, and it will fail to do so spectacularly because it’s chosen the wrong approach a priori, but I don’t think it’s reasonably portrayed as a great threat to the texting freedoms of small blogs and forum users, either.