Supreme Court will hear Texas anti-pornography law that challengers say violates free-speech rights
- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on a Texas law requiring online pornography sites to verify users' ages before granting access, as reported by the Supreme Court.
- The law, known as H.B. 1181, mandates users provide government-issued ID, with fines for non-compliance, according to the Texas law.
- The Free Speech Coalition argues that the law burdens adults' access to legal content and suggests alternative age verification methods, as stated by Alison Boden.
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defends the law as vital for public health, emphasizing the need to protect youth from pornography, according to the court brief.
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(The Hill) — The Supreme Court weighed whether an explosion in online pornography requires repudiating the court's precedents concerning sexual content as the justices Wednesday heard arguments in a challenge to Texas’s age-verification law for porn websites. A majority of the justices suggested the concept of an age-verification requirement could survive First Amendment scrutiny even as the court seemed inclined to send the Texas law back to a …

US Supreme Court weighs Texas age-check for porn sites
The US Supreme Court grappled with a challenge on Wednesday to a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors' ages, part of a growing effort to limit access by minors to online sexual content.
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