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Mitchell Holman wrote:

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in news:06jfojtji4ugk3puj252006galanckqk3t@4ax.com:

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:07:55 +0000, Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com>
wrote:

duke <duckgumbo32@cocks.net> wrote in
news:hAehP.204826$2xE6.148075@fx18.iad:

On 1/13/2025 12:16 PM, Lee wrote:

Supreme Court is about to decide
if Texans can watch Pornhub again
Jan 13

After Texas passed HB 1181,
Pornhub, alongside several other
adult websites and an industry
group called the Free Speech
Coalition, sued the state. A U.S.
District Court judge in Austin
issued a preliminary injunction
in August 2023. Judge David Ezra,
a Ronald Reagan appointee, found
that while Texas' goal of
protecting children from sexually
explicit material is "legitimate,"
the law would allow the government
"to peer into the most intimate
and personal aspects of people’s
lives." Ezra's ruling put the law
on ice one day before the bill was
to go into effect.

But in March 2024, the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
ruled very differently. In a 2-1
decision, that court said that
Texas' "legitimate interest in
preventing minors' access to
pornography" was enough to justify
an age-verification requirement.
In response, Pornhub's owner Aylo
Global Entertainment decided to
block users from Texas from using
both Pornhub. That decision has
spread now to other states as
more age-verification laws have
passed, making Pornhub inaccessible
to much of the southern United States.

Once the Fifth Circuit ruled, the
Free Speech Coalition appealed and
the Supreme Court decided that it
would take it up, adding a major
First Amendment case to its busy
docket. Oral arguments in Free
Speech Coalition v. Paxton will be
heard on Wednesday.
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/texas-age-verification-supreme >>>>> -c ourt-20027681.php

Wouldn't a good VPN that lets you appear to be in another
jurisdiction be adequate to get past Texas's attempted net-nannying?

Isn't the requirement of credit
card info an age limitation?

What if you're not buying anything?

Then Pornhub is not involved.

There's hella lotta free porn.

Which makes the GOP "age verification"
scheme pointless.

Hopefully they won't ban gay porn!

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