Supreme Court leaves in place a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify users' ages
Supreme Court leaves in place a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify users' ages
The Supreme Court has refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users.
The justices rejected an emergency appeal filed by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry. The provision of House Bill 1181, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, remains in effect even as the association’s full appeal is weighed by the Supreme Court.
There were no noted dissents from the court’s one-sentence order.
Similar age verification laws have passed in other states, including Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia.
The Texas law carries fines of up to $10,000 per violation that could be raised to up to $250,000 per violation by a minor.
‘Court allows Texas to ban porn websites’ is closer to the truth. None of them have the ability (or desire) to implement a system to accurately verify anyone’s identity.
In uh... unrelated news VPN usage in Texas up almost 300%.
I might’ve recovered my long-standing NordVPN account…
Pornographic DVD and print media sales up a similar amount!
It will become more compelling for them as more states enact similar legislation. The article states that Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia already have.
Enabling identification systems for porn websites will lead to a massive privacy concern. It’s only a matter of time until one has its user database hacked.
It’s only a matter of time until one has its user database hacked.
Not exactly porn, but the Ashley Madison data breach was in the same zip code. It caused a lot of embarrassment for a lot of people. But, self righteous prudes will be self righteous prudes, not matter what they are trying to limit/ban.
The states will only need to implement a properly verifiable online ID system first.
Suggestions for one on a whole house scale. Ideally I’d love to be able to do some method of split tunneling where I route banned IP ranges over the VPN vs normal traffic over standard routes. I guess I could set up a vpn tunnel on my synology and then add static routes to it on my gateway…
Yeah if you’re willing to do some sysadmining, it’s pretty easy to set up any vpn supporting openvpn or wireguard. Set the default route to be over the ISP interface, and then direct a list of known IP ranges over the vpn interface.
did the teen birth rate get too low or smth
Nah, military enrollment.
There aren't enough poors being minted for the upcoming world war.
No more abortions, no more porn. Oh btw your kids are gonna get fucked so hard, joining the army will seem like a good idea.
"Domestic infant supply."
Does the law fine people viewing porn?
They claim wanting to protect children and teens but these states are the easiest to find and get guns, regulated and unregulated. It's strictly puritanical lawmaking wanting to be a pissing contest of who can get church and state combined.
/Nelson