Supreme Court to consider Texas age-verification requirement for pornography websites
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Washington — The Supreme Court is set to weigh Wednesday states' efforts to require pornography websites to verify their visitors' ages amid a surge of laws that proponents say are aimed at protecting children from accessing sexual content on the internet.
The requirement at the center of the case was enacted by Texas in 2023 as part of a wave of similar measures that have been passed in 18 other states. Under Texas' law, a website must use "reasonable age verification methods" to confirm visitors are at least 18 years old.
Entities must comply with the law if more than one-third of its web content is "sexual material harmful to minors," which is considered to be content that is prurient, offensive and without value to minors. Covered companies have to verify users' ages through digital identification or a government-issued ID.
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