Supreme Court To Weigh Laws in Texas, 18 Other States Requiring Age Verification To Access Adult Content Online
One analyst says the Texas law being debated would ‘probably not be constitutional under existing precedent,’ but conservative justices on the court could ‘change that precedent.’
This week, a long-simmering battle between conservative states and online purveyors of adult content finally approaches its conclusion as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments against a Texas law requiring age verification to access the sites.
On Wednesday, the court will hear arguments in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, in which the plaintiffs argue that the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, is infringing on Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. A new state law championed by Mr. Paxton requires websites with over a third of their content classified as “sexual material harmful to minors” to verify a user’s age by forcing them to upload a digital copy of an official ID and submit to facial recognition scans.
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