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7/5/2025, 6:53:25 AM
>In a major First Amendment decision, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld a ruling by a federal appeals court that allowed Texas to enforce a state law requiring pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access. By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit should have used a more stringent standard of review, known as intermediate scrutiny, to determine whether the Texas law passes constitutional muster. But, as Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority, the Texas law passes that test.
>”The power to require age verification is within a State’s authority to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit content,” Thomas concluded.
>Justice Elena Kagan dissented, in an opinion that was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. She contended that the Texas law should have been reviewed using the most stringent standard, known as strict scrutiny.
>Texas’ law, known as H.B. 1181, compels websites to verify the ages of their users if more than one-third of their site’s content is “sexual material harmful to minors.”
OI gubnah, you got a loicense for that there bewb?
>”The power to require age verification is within a State’s authority to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit content,” Thomas concluded.
>Justice Elena Kagan dissented, in an opinion that was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. She contended that the Texas law should have been reviewed using the most stringent standard, known as strict scrutiny.
>Texas’ law, known as H.B. 1181, compels websites to verify the ages of their users if more than one-third of their site’s content is “sexual material harmful to minors.”
OI gubnah, you got a loicense for that there bewb?
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