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The Supreme Court could decide the fate of Pornhub — and the rest of the internet
With a surprise appearance by Gore Vidal.
Today, the two sides (as well as US Principal Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher) argued mainly over whether that court used the correct level of scrutiny for evaluating the law’s risks. Justices, particularly conservative ones like Alito and Thomas, raised that possibility repeatedly today — asking how the porn landscape and age verification tech have changed, and by implication, whether Reno and Ashcroft could be irrelevant. “I think that if the Supreme Court said that some form of age verification could be constitutional, that if you’re the state in other situations, they’re going to say, well, extend that reasoning to other substantive areas of internet regulation,” he says.
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