The U.S. Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward support for Texas’ age assurance law, as it weighs a host of arguments over whether or not porn sites should be required to ask their users for valid proof of age.
A PBS report on the proceedings, which began yesterday, says the court “seems open to age checks for online porn.” It quotes Chief Justice John Roberts, a member of the court’s conservative majority, who says “technological access to pornography has exploded.”
While the court has rejected past efforts to enact laws banning explicit material from being available to kids online, the case from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the technology for conducting age checks with biometrics and other tools has evolved to the point that it is effective.
