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Subject: Re: Right to pr0n overruled
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On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:18:06 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The father will ask the pre-teen son to help him set up age
> verificationn.
> 
>> Wait for Texas to try and make circumvention of the age verification
>> requirement by spoofing one's location a crime.
> 
> The Illinois Secretary of State said that Texas attempted to enforce
> abortion law by accessing Illinois database of license-plate readers to
> see which women had travelled here for an abortion as those who assist
> women in such travel are subject to state law.
> 
> It's the Fugitive Slave Act all over again.

How would license plate data prove aiding and abetting? Unless there's some
other testimonial evidence to go with it, all it proves is that a car with
Texas plates traveled to Illinois. It proves nothing about the purpose for the
travel.

>>> "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?
> 
> Hey! You watch pr0n the way you want to and I'll watch the way I want to.