
Let's make #porn really forbidden and thus even more desirable to the very children who are sometimes the ones who are teaching their parents how to use a VPN. Let's make Airdrop and USB thumb drives great again. Omg, what if kids start hiding pictures snipped from magazines behind their math homework in a Pee-Chee folder at #school? That is certainly not how I first saw images of penetrative #sex while attending a middle school. Certainly not.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-s1-5422424/scotus-texas-porn-law
> Supreme Court upholds Texas age verification law for adult websites https://nypost.com/2025/06/27/us-news/supreme-court-upholds-texas-age-verification-law-for-adult-websites/
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring consumers to provide age verification in order to gain access to commercial websites that provide sexually explicit material.
The very short summary of the ruling in
#FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton: "The power to require age verification is within a State's authority to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit content."
So #SCOTUS is basically simplifying down to a #StatesRights issue.
Another section of the #law, which was blocked by a lower court, requires sites to post “sexual material health warnings” that make widely disputed claims that pornography is “potentially biologically addictive” & “proven to harm brain development.”
Sites that violate the law face fines of up to $10,000 a day.
“Kids can get online porn through gaming systems, tablets, phones, computers,” Justice Amy Coney #Barrett said. “Let me just say that content-filtering for all those different devices, I can say from personal experience, is difficult to keep up with.”
Shaffer told the justices that young people should be block from accessing #porn, but there were less intrusive ways of doing that than #AgeVerification. He suggested educating parents & using content-filtering software were better routes, but Justice Amy Coney #Barrett pushed back on that, citing her own children.
#privacy #Texas #law #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment
In response to statutes in #Texas & elsewhere, #Pornhub cut off service to states requiring #AgeVerification.
The #porn industry plaintiffs, who formed an association called the #FreeSpeech Coalition, sued to block the TX #law before it went into effect in 2023. Derek L. Shaffer, an attorney for the coalition, argued the lower court ruling allowing the law could “open the door to an emerging wave of #regulations that imperil #FreeSpeech online.”
Now would be a good time for every #porn site to out every single right winger and their porn habits. Every. Single. One.
Edit: …and ESPECIALLY their search queries.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-porn-texas_n_683f057ee4b018c3beee0d74
During oral arguments in January Justices indicated the landscape of the porn industry had rapidly transformed since the court last issued a major decision dealing with explicit material, about 20 years ago. Today, porn sites & smartphones allow easy access to adult content.
"We’re in an entirely different world,” #ClarenceThomas said. “Playboy was about squiggly lines on cable TV.” [he definitely knows]
Next opinion is #FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton. It is by #ClarenceThomas - oh boy.
The vote is once again 6-3.
Kagan dissents, joined by Sotomayor & Jackson.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1122_3e04.pdf
There are 6 cases remaining:
#FreeSpeech Coalition v. Paxton — #Texas law that requires #porn sites to verify age.
#FCC v. Consumers’ Research — consumer *protection* group devoted to fighting “#woke” corporations contends that E-Rate phone & internet subsidies for #LowIncome communities violates the #nondelegation doctrine
#SCOTUS #law
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/remaining-supreme-court-cases/
Today is the final day of #SCOTUS’ term — & the justices have left some of the most important & contentious cases until the end.
They are slated to release 6 opinions, including decisions that will deal with nationwide #injunctions on #Trump’s ban on #BirthrightCitizenship, whether #parents can opt their children out of #school lessons involving #LGBTQ #books, & a #Texas #law that requires age verification to view online #porn.