https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-porn-texas_n_683f057ee4b018c3beee0d74?ec6
"Supreme Court Says States Can Limit Access To Online Porn
The ruling marks a major change to longstanding First Amendment protections for online pornography.
No ID, no service. That’s the new reality for porn sites in Texas after the Supreme Court upheld a state law requiring age verification to access such sites on Friday.
The 6-3 decision is a major change in First Amendment law as applied to the internet and will likely lead more states to enact similar age verification requirements across the country. Porn sites that do not wish to comply will likely entirely block access in states with age verification laws, as PornHub, the largest online pornography site, did in Texas after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law in 2024.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority, with the court’s three liberal justices dissenting.
This is the first time the Supreme Court has approved a significant restriction on access to online pornography. Previously, in two separate decisions, the court struck down the restrictions imposed in the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 as unconstitutionally restricting free speech. Those laws, however, swept far more broadly than Texas’ anti-porn law, seeking to restrict access to materials that either included writing or were not pornographic in nature."
Terrible news for #YouthLib
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