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Challenge to Texas age-verification on porn sites comes to Supreme Court. (www.scotusblog.com)
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A trade group for the adult entertainment industry will appear at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in its challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access – for example, by requiring a government-issued identification. The law applies to any website whose content is one-third or more “harmful to minors” – a definition that the challengers say would include most sexually suggestive content, from nude modeling to romance novels and R-rated movies.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess we're about to see how many favors they're going to give to the fundigelicals. Whee.

My guess is they side with Texas (because they've had too much normal adjudication lately), citing some impropriety statute from the Dutch Puritans circa 1683 as their core precedent, followed by pointing out that there's no federal law that supercedes it, so neener-neener.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago

I guess all the corruption and moral collapse allows me, who has absolutely no clue about law, to actually have educated guesses how important cases are voted.

I simply ask myself “how would a bad person decide?”