Adult content – even material harmful to minors – is First Amendment-protected speech and the Supreme Court found that the burdens posed by online age verification unnecessarily suppress access to protected speech, and that “less restrictive alternatives” — such as device-level filters — ”would be at least as effective” at barring minors from seeing adult material.
What You Need to Know
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The huge stakes in a new Supreme Court case about pornography
A helpful explainer of the issues at stake in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton and why the First Amendment would limit the government’s ability to mandate age verification to view online content. learn more ▸
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