Source: tech.yahoo.com 6/27/25
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday against challengers to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in an effort to protect minors after the adult entertainment industry argued that the measure violates the free speech rights of adults.
The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, upheld a lower court’s decision allowing enforcement of the Republican-led state’s age-checking mandate. The law likely does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment safeguard against government abridgment of speech, the court ruled.
The court’s conservative justices were in the majority. Its three liberal justices dissented.
The Texas measure is one of 24 similar ones enacted around the United States, primarily in Republican-governed states, with some set to take effect in the months ahead, according to the Free Speech Coalition, which challenged the law.
The law requires websites whose content is more than a third “sexual material harmful to minors” to have all users submit personally identifying information verifying they are at least age 18 to gain access.
Like minors who want to won’t find a way to get around the verification thing…
Not to mention that this is a parental issue.
Material harmful to minors that at 18 becomes unharmful to adults…gotta love their thinking. Define harmful to one that is not harmful to others. Once again, a line in the sand becomes the demarcation line for alleged knowledge on the development of the human brain and the effects therein. Magical once one crosses that line and the world that opens up.
The hilarious implications of the Supreme Court’s new porn decision (Vox via Yahoo, 27 Jun 2025)
When you read this, you will read how the court screwed themselves and other courts also. This is going to be a mess for the ages.
Anyone in middle school or older knows what a VPN is and how to set one up or at least have a friend who does and will set it up for them. The porn sites won’t be imposing these restrictions where it isn’t required and with the VPN you can just about make it look like you are coming from anywhere in the world.
Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham as well as others in government better be careful.
Terrible decision, bad for kids, loss of civil rights for all. First of all, who is the decider of what is “sexual material harmful to minors”? Secondly, the thought that this law will be effective to the extent that ages will truly be verified, is laughable. And last but not least, the most hardcore sexual material and that which contains illegal images is not accessed by going to reputable porn sites that comply with laws. This law will simply further push people, including minors, to the hard core, dark web.
What’s next? Age restrictions for speedos, bikinis, skirts, lingerie, romance novels, and anything else someone finds not geared for minors.
Wait until THAT database leaks, LOL
The liberal progressive neighbor who keeps dumping gas on my lawn because I am a person forced to register, likes interracial midget femdom porn!?!
Okay, so not a really a surprise there, but what about the first federal judge who’s information shows up in the leaked database?
Or the first person who publicly said: “So if they’re inconvenienced or their feelings are hurt, I don’t care.” has his information leaked?
Guess what pumpkin, your porn habits and searches leaked and someone printed it and sent it to your kids. You know what? “So you are inconvenienced or your feelings are hurt, I don’t care.”
This is something I wouldn’t die on the hill over. Given the severe penalties of cp possession, and how it often gets mixed in thru thumbnails & links in legal online adult sites, maybe it’s time for them to be held more accountable. Perhaps this isn’t the exact way, but it needs to start somewhere. I’m tired of individuals only taking the fall, instead of these companies.
Next they will pass laws requiring chastity belts, salt peter in the boys lunches and public floggings for the “sinners”.