The tide has begun to turn against states with GOP-backed legislation restricting access to adult websites
that Ezra’s ruling is an important victory in their state-by-state campaign against such anti-porn regulations. “Even though the age-verification law is only currently enjoined in Texas, the court’s opinion is hugely influential, and should put on notice legislators and legislatures in other states who have passed, or plan to pass similar legislation,” he says.
“Unfortunately for the religious groups pushing this legislation, the copycat legislation in Louisiana, Utah, Virginia and other states suffers all the same inherent problems,” adds Stabile. “There’s been a lot of murmuring on the right that they’d finally found a way to censor adult content online. This ruling shows that their confidence was entirely misplaced, and is unlikely to survive a court challenge.
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