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Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law for Porn Sites
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring pornography sites to institute age-verification measures to ensure children can't access them.
The 2023 Texas law applies to online publishers whose content is more than one-third “sexual material harmful to minors” and requires them to verify the age of all visitors using a government-issued ID or “public or private transactional data” to ensure they are 18 or older. Greg Abbott in June 2023 but was on hold after the lawsuit filed by the Free Speech Coalition (a group that includes Pornhub ’s parent company) resulted in a preliminary injunction staying its enforcement. Samir Jain, VP of policy for digital rights advocacy group Center for Democracy & Technology, said the Supreme Court’s ruling “overturns decades of precedent and has the potential to upend access to First Amendment-protected speech on the internet for everyone, children and adults alike.”
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