Does requiring pornography viewers to provide identification verifying their age violate the First Amendment — or is it a necessary safety measure to protect children from easily accessing sexual content?

That is a debate central to a legal battle over a Texas law that requires pornographic platforms to verify users’ ages before they can access lewd content. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on January 15 in the case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, after the Fifth Circuit left Texas’s age verification mandate in place.