Supreme Court to Hear Texas Porn Site Age Verification Law

Jan 15, 2025
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The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a challenge on free speech grounds to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in a case testing the legality of state efforts to keep minors from viewing such material online.
A trade group representing adult entertainment performers and companies appealed a lower court’s decision allowing the Republican-led state’s age-verification mandate, finding that it likely did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment safeguard against government abridgment of speech.
The challengers, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, include the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association of adult content performers, producers and distributors, as well as companies that run several pornographic websites including Pornhub.com and xnxx.com.
The Supreme Court last year denied a request by the challengers to halt enforcement of the law while litigation in the dispute proceeded.
The case tests the limits of state powers to protect minors from explicit materials deemed by policymakers to be harmful to them with measures that burden the access of adults to constitutionally protected expression.
The challengers said in court filings that online age verification unlawfully stifles the free speech rights of adults and exposes them to increasing risks of identity theft, extortion and data breaches.
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