Re: Right to pr0n overruled

BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:28:31 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
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On 6/29/2025 4:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Jun 29, 2025 at 12:59:53 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
 wrote:
 

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 Jun 29, 2025 at 8:20:37 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>:

 6/28/2025 7:01 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 Jun 28, 2025 at 2:33:55 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

 

 Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton

 

 Court allows Texas' law on age-verification for pornography sites
 By Amy Howe
 SCOTUSblog
 Jun 27, 2025
 
 
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/court-allows-texas-law-on-age-verification-for-pornography-sites/

 

 Where is Larry Flynt when we need him?

 

 To protect children, Texas wrote the ultimate nanny state into law,
 denying adults the ability to surf for pr0n anonymously. The state law
 is not unconstitutional.

 

 Not unconstitutional, but easily mooted given the easy access to and
 use of VPNs.

 

 Here's an article listing a lot of anonymous speech cases. Generally,
 anonymity is protected with the major exception of campaign disclosure,

 

 Intriguingly, dissenting from a denial of cert, Clarence Thomas said
 there could be a need to protect campaign donors from disclosure in case
 of potential retribution, but he has no such concern here.

 

 Why wouldn't age verification infringe upon the right of anonymity?

 

 Because, unless specified to the nearest microsecond, age doesn't
 usefully identify an individual.

 

 Yes, but the only practical way to verify people's age en masse is to
 require them to provide an identity document, which typically provides
 more info than just the person's age.

 
How can a document be verified en masse?

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It's the age of the mass of customers of a given web site that's at issue. The
only way to do that in any practical way is ask for an identity document from
each customer (driver license, ID card, etc.) and those documents don't just
have a person's age on them. They have a lot of other identifying
information.

I've been required to identify myself submitting a scan of a driver's
license and a photograph of my face.

On various Web sites, I've clicked a button "Yes I am over 18" but that
doesn't verify that I am a user who is over 18.

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