Supreme Court agrees to review Texas age verification law for porn sites

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will consider a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the ages of their visitors.

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Cause and Effect In Action: After Texas Passes Age Verification, VPN Searches Soar

Many have long pointed out that VPNs can circumvent Canada's age verification laws. Texas is offering a beautiful demonstration of why this is a strong point.

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#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Aylo #BillS210 #Canada #HB1181 #Pornhub #Texas #TOR #VPN

#HB1181 also required #porn sites to display a controversial “health warning,” which the #law’s opponents called “pseudoscientific.” They included language like: “#TEXAS HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: Pornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, & child pornography.”

While the #FifthCircuit upheld the age verification portion of the #law, it struck down the health warning req, ruling that it “unconstitutionally compelled plaintiffs’ speech.”

#privacy #FirstAmendment

Last June, #Texas Gov #GregAbbott signed into #law #HB1181, a bill requiring companies that offer “sexual material harmful to minors” to verify that its users are ≥18.

Companies that need to limit access by minors…, commonly use #AgeGating methods like requiring a user to list their DOB. TX’s law required users to prove their age by either entering info from a govt-issued ID or using a 3rd-party sys that uses public & #private #data —like employment, education or mortgage info— to verify age.
Texas anti-porn bill violates First Amendment free speech laws, judge rules

A judge has ruled that Texas’ anti-porn legislation violates the First Amendment, just one day before it was set to go into effect.  

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Under new law, Washington communities must plan around ‘multimodal level of service’

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