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<p>GradyGrady9: Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;The US Supreme Court decided on a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of visitors&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors&#039; ages, rejecting arguments that this violates free speech and boosting efforts to protect children from online sexual content.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The court&#039;s decision will impact a raft of similar laws nationwide and could set the direction for inter...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;The US Supreme Court decided on a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of visitors&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors' ages, rejecting arguments that this violates free speech and boosting efforts to protect children from online sexual content.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The court's decision will impact a raft of similar laws nationwide and could set the direction for internet speech regulation as concerns about the impact of digital life on society grow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Texas is one of about 20 US states to institute checks that porn viewers are over 18, which critics argue violate First Amendment free speech rights.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Britain and Germany also enforce age-related access restrictions to adult websites, while a similar policy in France was blocked by the courts a week ago.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;US companies like Meta, meanwhile, are lobbying Washington lawmakers for age-based verification to be carried out by smartphone giants Apple and Google on their app stores.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Texas law was passed in 2023 by the state's Republican-majority legislature but was initially blocked after a challenge by an adult entertainment industry trade association.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A federal district court sided with the trade group, the Free Speech Coalition, saying the law restricted adults' access to constitutionally protected content.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But a conservative-dominated appeals court upheld the age verification requirement, prompting the pornography trade group to take its case to the Supreme Court, where conservatives have a 6-3 supermajority.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Under the law, companies that fail to properly verify users' ages face fines up to $10,000 per day and up to $250,000 if a child is exposed to pornographic content as a result.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To protect privacy, the websites aren't allowed to retain any identifying information obtained from users when verifying ages, and doing so could [https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=cost%20companies cost companies] $10,000 daily in fines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;During arguments in January before the Supreme Court, a lawyer representing the Free Speech Coalition said the law was &quot;overly burdensome&quot; and that its goal could be accomplished using content filtering programs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the mother of seven children, took issue with the efficacy of content filtering, saying that from personal experience as a parent, such programs were difficult to maintain across the many types of devices used by kids.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Barrett also asked the lawyer to explain why requesting age verification online is any different than doing so at a movie theater that displays pornographic movies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The lawyer for the Free Speech Coalition -- which includes the popular website Pornhub that has blocked all access in some states with age verification laws -- said online verification was different as it leaves a &quot;permanent record&quot; that could be a target for hackers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;During the court's hearing of the case in January, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas, [https://ppmpp.polinela.ac.id/M77-CASINO abuse] both Republican appointees, seemed to suggest that advances in [https://www.search.com/web?q=technology technology] might justify reviewing online free speech cases.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1997, the Supreme Court struck down, in an overwhelming 7-2 decision, a federal online age-verification law in what became a landmark free speech case that set a major precedent for the internet age.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</div>

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