Supreme Court leans in favor of state-enforced age limits on porn websites
Summary
The Supreme Court signaled support for state-enforced age-verification laws for pornographic websites, as argued in Texas’ case.
Conservative justices cited the surge in children’s access to online pornography and technological changes, calling for reconsideration of past 1st Amendment rulings.
Texas' law requires websites to confirm users are 18+, a model supported by 23 Republican-led states.
Critics argue it could chill adult free speech, but justices noted filtering software is ineffective. The court may uphold the law or send it back for further review by the 5th Circuit.
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"Come on man, just give us an ID linked to your IP address! We won't use it for anything, I swear! We will also make sure it is kept in the most secure servers!"
I’m shocked that the DoD doesn’t step in to slap down this kind of insecure shit. Leaking more personal details to more parties is a national security nightmare.
The DoD is salivating over this one. They get to link IPs to passports.
"but justices noted filtering software is ineffective"
lol
But they're doing it, anyway!
Let's not let something like justice get in the way of expensive useless bullshit and graft, it's the Roberts court
Can't wait for all Red states to instantly mirror the Taliban government.
And there will be no singing!!!
Yallqada about to take over :(
The dominionist movement took a lot of lessons from Iran, and seek to create a similar society but with christianity instead of islam.
Tired of it being everybody else's job to "protect the children" rather than their parents.
Do changes in technology justify curbing the second amendment, too, or just the first? I mean, guns have certainly changed a lot since the bill of rights was written.
I'm sure it doesn't apply to only the 1st amendment! They'll apply it to all the other amendments too (unless they don't want to)
It applies to whatever they goddamn please now.
Supreme Court rules once again that American citizens have no right to privacy.
Age-verification HTTP requests are deeply rooted in this nation’s history.
Thank God we've moved on to age-verification HTTPS requests
So what they're saying is that times have changed and things that used to be considered rights guaranteed by the Constitution need to change with the times.
I'm sure this logic can be applied to other rights as well, as long as those rights aren't laid out in any amendments that come after 1 and before 3.
Or between 12 and 14.
I like that the arguement is that there are technical limitations to age restricting graphic content, so the best course of action is limiting people's rights.
Seems like people's rights should be more important.
If they actually cared, just publish a standard that sites declare their minimum age range. Then make apple and Google add a "child mode" that filters this at the DNS level when you set up a device. As it's opt-in, sites would be responsible for what they're declaring
Tech savvy kids will probably be able to get past it, but let's be honest... Nothing would stop them
Honestly, I'd even support something like this, and I think you'd get voluntary adoption. Advertisers would like this, it's not very burdensome technically, and it would give a safer legal framework for everyone
But of course, this isn't really about the kids...
Oh yeah, I agree that there are many ways of approaching this.
Red states are about to get even more "freedom".
You get what you vote for.
I live in a state that has porn ID laws. I did not vote for this.
When the bill was signed into law was when I heard of it. I was fucking livid. Not a single peep from any of the many, many groups I'm a part of. It was almost like it was snuck through last minute.
I emailed my Republican representatives, which of course support the bill and sent me a form letter back.
These laws are impossible to repeal due to their "what about the children" arguments. I'm so fucking tempted to spear phish these assholes to publish their browser histories but who has the time.
As if republicans care about children. They want you having sex instead of masturbating. They want you poor from having kids instead of having an abortion or using contraceptives. They want more bodies to feed the us military complex.
This reminds me of a geroge carlin qoute
"They want live babies so they can make dead soldier"
It's sad how it's still relevant almost 30 years later.
It's been relevant for all of human history, silly
This is probably one step on the path to the xtianist wishes of outlawing porn so it can be weaponized only against certain groups.
Also, when dumbass redpilled angry young males bitch that they "didn't vote for this"....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxnsmsXYGJ4
Stand up comedy is too easy to access for kids. Medical shows are too easy to access for kids. Shows questioning the Bible are too easy to access for kids...
Idiot tax as far as I'm concerned. Get a VPN.
You know they can just outlaw VPNs as they did it in many countries already...
Yeah but they won't cuz this bill is bullshit virtue signaling