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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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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not illegal at all, what are you talking about.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

How the fuck is that not illegal? Companies cannot just release private information about their users.

The US doesn't have a full-blown GDPR, but it still has laws about what companies can do with people's data. They can't just publish information about specific users without their consent. It's honestly laughable you think that's legal.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

without their consent

You didn't read the tos update, did you.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

They absolutely can publish non protected information and none of that is actually protected.