Edgar Survints / Android Authority
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- The Texas House Bill 1181 requires age verification for users trying to access the content of adult content.
- The lower courts have upheld the bill in a 6-3 decision by the lower courts.
- States are now free to force the websites to demand a copy of their identity, which raises concerns for privacy.
The only part of going online is being asked to prove that: If you are not robots, select all bicycles. Click to confirm this box before you are 21 years old before you browse for Sale Bongs. But the majority of this time, all this information is offered on the Honor system, without any meaningful check without any meaningful check. If you prefer it not to change, and do not like the idea of ​​sharing a copy of your identity with all these websites, we have received some bad news for you, and you have been convicted of the United States Supreme Court (Scots).
The Texas House Bill 1181 is concerned in this case, which was necessary to confirm the identity of visitors to the websites offered to a large amount of content for minorities so they are of an appropriate age (via Takkarch) The Free Speech Alliance filed a lawsuit in response, in which the law was presented as an unconstitutional ban on an independent speech – a argument that was used successfully in the past. And really, the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.
Texas pushed back, which took the case, and today in a 6-3 verdict, the conservative steak court has ruled in support of HB 1181. The judgment of the court Reflect exactly the use of pearl clutching about the protection of the interests of the minors that were rejected by the courts earlier. But in 2025, in a careful judicial scenario, conservative interests eventually succeeded in ending their agenda.
Beyond Texas, almost HALF half of the states in the United States already have similar age certification rules, or will soon be enforced. With this decision on the books on books, we can almost guarantee that more states will feel the option to follow it, and we can expect more “no one to think about children” with every possibility to target additional forms of adult content online.
So far, when the age verification rules are encountered, sites like Purn Hub have stopped accessing millions of users with these rules instead of closing millions of users. But we can quickly reach a tapping point, and it feels like a future where more sites demand ID scans to access them and can be around. Between the obvious desire not to disclose the name when using the content of adults, and concerns over potential data violations with any age inspectors, which do not look like a good direction under the Internet.