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The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End | Three decades into the internet era, the Supreme Court finally appears ready to uphold age-verification laws.


Three decades into the internet era, the Supreme Court finally appears ready to uphold age-verification laws.

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 was supposed to establish a similar regime for the commercial internet, which only a few years into existence was already beginning to hint at its potential to supercharge the distribution of adult material. A young boy or girl can take out their smartphone, type a free porn site’s URL into their browser, and be met with an endless array of quickly loading high-definition videos of adults having sex, much of it rough. “Were we to lose in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, we’ve got some new legislation ready to go,” Iain Corby, the executive director of the Age Verification Providers Association, told me.

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