TODAY: SCOTUS Hears Challenge To Porn Age-Checks

The Associated Press reports:

A Texas anti-pornography law is going before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a collision of free speech rights, regulation of online content and the protection of children.

Texas is among more than a dozen states with similar laws aimed at blocking young children and teenagers from viewing pornography. The adult-content site Pornhub has stopped operating altogether in several of those states, citing the technical and privacy hurdles in complying with the laws.

The Free Speech Coalition, an adult-entertainment industry trade group, says the Texas law wrongly affects adults by requiring them to submit personal identifying information online, making it vulnerable to hacking or tracking.

Read the full article.

In Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, SCOTUS weighs whether a Texas age-verification law for adult websites violates the First Amendment. Learn the facts of the case and why it’s significant: https://t.co/7WTrjZqBFS pic.twitter.com/i0k2JizlB7

— American Bar Association (@ABAesq) January 15, 2025

SCOTUS is set 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 https://t.co/gEs1leGmvy pic.twitter.com/7kds84Y04g

— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) January 15, 2025