Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (www.eff.org)

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Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. The Court ruled that “no person—adult or child—has a First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting proof of age.” This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy. These are real and immense burdens on adults, and the Court was wrong to ignore them in upholding Texas’ law.

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[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Here's that nanny state Republicans were always talking about

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure "Nanny state" is a popular category of porn

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

But there's no such legislation or required identification for my kids to see graphic violence and gore. We're a pretty bass ackwards society.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

ironic you self censored "ass backwards" on a comment calling out censorship.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

they wrote ass backwards ass backwards. It's a joke, not self censorship.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

We're so ass backwards my go-to thought was the censored version.

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[-] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Free speech only applies to saying the N word

-Supreme Court probably some time in the future

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Ah, the ol in haec verba Tarantino rule

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

sex is bad but dropping bombs on muslims is okay

[-] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

And now those VPN subscriptions go up, up, up.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

The headline got me on the first third.

[-] basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Am I the only one who beleives that it would have been a more effective arguement to try and use the 4th amendment instead of the 1st? Violating free speech is just a weak claim, but "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches..." seems quite relevent here. But I am also not a lawyer.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I thought they just stuck down the one in Tennessee? What the fuck. Sick of these corrupt courts.

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