PornHub sued to overturn the new rule on free-speech grounds, and a judge agreed, calling the law 'unconstitutional on its face.'
Yet another court has ruled that the GOP-dominated Texas Legislature overstepped constitutional bounds during this year's culture war-fueled session.
On Thursday, a federal judge in San Antonio ruled that a new state law forcing porn sites to use age-verification measures — such as a requiring users to submit facial scans or pictures of their government-issued photo IDs — violates the First Amendment. The law also would require sites to bear a “Texas Health and Human Services Warning” about the dangers of ogling porn.
on free-speech grounds. Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas agreed, calling it overly broad and"unconstitutional on its face." “The statute is not narrowly tailored and chills the speech of Plaintiffs and adults who wish to access sexual materials,” Ezra wrote in his decision.
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