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Subject: Re: Right to pr0n overruled
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:00:59 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jun 28, 2025 at 2:33:55 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton
> 
> Court allows Texas' law on age-verification for pornography sites
> By Amy Howe
> SCOTUSblog
> Jun 27, 2025
>
> 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.

Wait for Texas to try and make circumvention of the age verification
requirement by spoofing one's location a crime.

> "Adults have no First Amendment right to avoid age verification . . . "
> 
> We don't?
> 
> Americans have long had the right to write anonymously. Age verification
> removes anonymity.

What are you writing while watching porn? Is it kind of like peeing your name
in the snow?