The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday approved a lower court ruling that said states can require that porn sites have a procedure in place to verify the age of people who visit their sites.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion for the 6-3 court. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett concurred.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
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“The statute advances the State’s important interest in shielding children from sexually explicit content,” Thomas wrote in the majority opinion backing the 2023 Texcas law, according to the New York Post.
“And, it is appropriately tailored because it permits users to verify their ages through the established methods of providing government-issued identification and
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