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Supreme Court clears the way for increased age verification for porn sites
The case concerned age verification “porn ID” laws and whether they were an appropriate regulation.
“The government should not have the right to demand that we sacrifice our privacy and security to use the internet,” said Alison Boden, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, the adult industry trade group who sued Texas over its age verification law. The decision doesn’t mean all forms of age verification are now legal online, said Vera Eidelman, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, who joined as co-counsel on the case. Critics of age verification laws worry how state governments will determine what kinds of content qualify as “harmful to minors,” especially as censorship of LGBTQ+ media rises under the mantle of being inappropriate for children — or outright consider the existence of queer people to be pornographic.
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