US supreme court rules in favor of age checks for pornography websites to keep children away | US supreme court

The US Supreme Court has decided that a Texas law, which confirms that the age of visitors of pornography websites is constitutional on Friday, confirmed that a global debate was a constitution in a global debate on how non -disregards will prevent adult materials as online.

“HB 1181 requires adults to verify their age before they reach their obscene conversation, Clare Clarence Thomas wrote the court’s 6-3 majority. “The statute advances the important interest of the state to protect children from sexually open content. And is appropriately adapted because users allow users to verify their age through the methods of providing identity and transaction data given by the state.” Elena Kagan opposed the court next to the other two liberal judgments.

The Texas law required visitors to send personally identifiable information to verify their ages and to have sites that determine that they were 18 years old to access a page with a third pornographic content, according to the standard of laws. The Free Speech Coalition, a trade group representing adult entertainment professionals and companies, including pornhub.com, xnxx.com, xvideos.com and brazzers.com, filed a lawsuit against Texas Chief Prosecutor Ken Paxton. The coalition claimed that the task unjustly prevented the right to consent to adults to reach constitutionally protected materials, and that the sites have exposed to confidentiality risks by overcoming the burden of verification.

In January, the court heard discussions at the Free Speech Coalition Inc V Paxton. After two hours of oral arguments, justice was divided into the separation of the law into the constitution. A Federal Court of Appeal had previously cleared the path of the law and decided to take precautionary measures of a lower court. The Federal Judge in the case said that the law increased the legitimate interest in preventing the US government from monitoring pornography. On Friday, the Supreme Court confirmed this decision.

The decision constitutes a precedent for two dozen states in the United States, which passes age verification laws. Pornhub, which is estimated to be the most visited site for pornographic content in the world, made itself unusable. 17. Texas, the second most transitional state in the USA with 31 million people, is the highest profile examples. In September 2023, the State Legislative Assembly adopted a law that required the definition of information to visit Pornhub and other adult sites. In March of the following year, the site darkened in the state, greeted visitors with a banner called “ineffective, unjust and dangerous”. It is not available today. Pornhub is still present in Louisiana, which also applies age verification laws, but he saw that traffic dropped 80%there, features to the barrier of identity requirement.

Research on Age Gate Regulations in the United States Found that they are not effective in the specified objectives. Online search data showed that people in states with age verification laws are looking for porn sites that do not comply with local laws to hide age doors and virtual private networks from internet providers.

Pornhub’s parent company Aylo, Apple or Samsung will determine the age of a telephone manufacturer and this information, the site to obtain and host information, instead of forcing, the content of a person visited the content filtering software or the device discussed in favor of age verification.

Aylo’s site package returned to France last week after a three -week dimming, and there is a protest against a age of age verification. A administrative court suspended the law while reviewing its compliance with the European Union regulations.

It is likely that the struggle against Britain’s age verification will be the next front. Pornhub and other pornography websites promised to implement age controls in accordance with the online Security Law, which requires the application of “solid” age control methods this summer.