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Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (www.eff.org)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. The Court ruled that “no person—adult or child—has a First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting proof of age.” This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy. These are real and immense burdens on adults, and the Court was wrong to ignore them in upholding Texas’ law.

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Lmao. Yeah, the government is going to implement this? Assuming it is actually secure, when do you expect this to release? A decade from now?

[–] FreedomAdvocate -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Would be incredibly easy to make secure, as it wouldn’t even need to store the verification documents or anything personally identifiable once your account is set up.

I think if the government is actually serious about doing this they will need to do it, or outsource it to someone who will. I don’t actually think these laws will take effect in December.

This could even be done incredibly easily via myGov for example. It has everyone’s information including DOB. I could build an age verification API for that in a night with time for a good snooze.

Do you agree that it is possible without all of the porn sites getting your information now at least?

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Less button clicks to just use a free online vpn

[–] FreedomAdvocate -1 points 8 months ago

They're coming for our VPNs soon enough, be sure of that. Here in Australia they've already flagged wanting to ban them.

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