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Supreme Court to decide fate of porn bans this month


(The Center Square) − Lawmakers, free speech advocates and pornography sites across the country are waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on Texas' House Bill 1181.

The high court will hear arguments on Jan. 15 in what could be a landmark case deciding the fate of more than a dozen laws across the country that impose heavy restrictions on websites that offer pornography and other "material harmful to minors." If the court applies rational-basis review, which is a more lenient standard, it would make it easier for states to justify restrictions on online content, including age-verification requirements for adult sites. "In one of Petitioner Xnxx's more than 300,000 free videos of 'teen bondage gangbang[s],' five men tie a young woman down with electrical tape and take turns penetrating her orally, vaginally and anally – sometimes simultaneously."

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