US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Law Requiring ID Verification for Porn Sites

The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

The Supreme Court ruled on FSC v. Paxton, allowing online age verification to gate adult content and raising new questions about porn, privacy, and free speech.

Ruling Restarts Pornography Age Verification Fight

Florida lawmakers passed the age-verification requirements in 2024 as part of a broader bill (HB 3) that also seeks to prevent children under age 16 from opening social-media accounts on some platforms.

Today's Supreme Court Decision on Age Verification Tramples Free

Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. 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.

Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law for Porn Sites

The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision upheld a Texas law requiring pornography sites to institute age-verification measures to ensure children can’t access them. The 2023 Texas law applies to online publishers whose content is more than one-third “sexual material harmful to minors” and requires them to verify the age of all visitors using a government-issued ID or “public or private transactional data” to ensure they are 18 or older. Writ…

US Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring ID verification for porn sites

The state law was challenged by porn sites that argued the age-checking requirement violated constitutional rights to free speech.

Supreme Court sides with Texas law requiring ID to view pornography

Texas law seeks to prevent people under18 from viewing explicit content