Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. The Court ruled that “no person—adult or child—has a First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting proof of age.” This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy. These are real and immense burdens on adults, and the Court was wrong to ignore them in upholding Texas’ law.
But there’s no such legislation or required identification for my kids to see graphic violence and gore. We’re a pretty bass ackwards society.
ironic you self censored “ass backwards” on a comment calling out censorship.
Free speech only applies to saying the N word
-Supreme Court probably some time in the future
Ah, the ol in haec verba Tarantino rule
Here’s that nanny state Republicans were always talking about
Pretty sure “Nanny state” is a popular category of porn
Projection, it is secretly what they wanted the whole time.
Am I the only one who beleives that it would have been a more effective arguement to try and use the 4th amendment instead of the 1st? Violating free speech is just a weak claim, but “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches…” seems quite relevent here. But I am also not a lawyer.
I thought they just stuck down the one in Tennessee? What the fuck. Sick of these corrupt courts.
I wonder what all the “pro-porn”, “pro-free speech”, gamergate republican pundits on the internet have to say about this…
