The Supreme Court rejected a plea from the pornography industry to stop the enforcement of a Texas age verification law imposed on pornography websites.
age verification law imposed on pornography sites, allowing the Lone Star State to continue the policy it enacted to protect children.
In mid-April, adult industry trade organization Free Speech Coalition joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union to ask the Supreme Court to stop the law, arguing that the law aimed at stopping children from viewing pornography actually harms the rights of adults. “Specifically, the act requires adults to comply with intrusive age verification measures that mandate the submission of personally identifying information over the internet in order to access websites containing sensitive and intimate content,” the industry wrote in court filings.
In Texas filings, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said the law “simply requires the pornography industry that makes billions of dollars from peddling smut to take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that those who access the material are adults.”
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