US EditionSupreme 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 Supreme Court reconsiders online pornography - City Desk ABQ
By Will Oremus · The Washington Post (c) 2025The Supreme Court may not comprise the “nine greatest experts on the internet,” as Justice Elena Kagan once quipped, but they’re getting no shortage of opportunities to learn.On Wednesday morning, while the tech world awaited the high court’s ruling on TikTok, Kagan and her colleagues were busy hearing oral arguments in another online speech case – one that has received less attention but could prove …
US Supreme Court weighs challenge to Texas adult website restriction
The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a case concerning a Texas law restricting access to websites with “sexual material harmful to minors.” Derek Shaffer, counsel for the law’s challengers, argued that the application of rational basis defies the precedent set in Ashcroft v. ACLU, where the court applied strict scrutiny to a federal law preventing minors from accessing onlin…
A Texas law that requires users to verify the age of majority is under discussion
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Supreme Court wrestles with explosion of online porn
(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 …
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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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