Texas online porn age-verification law goes to US Supreme Court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The 2023 measure is one of 19 similar ones enacted around the United States, primarily in Republican-governed states, as policymakers worry about how the proliferation of hardcore pornographic material online affects the wellbeing of minors.
58% : A trade group representing adult entertainment performers and companies appealed a lower court's decision allowing the Republican-led state's age-verification mandate, finding that it likely did not violate the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment safeguard against government abridgment of speech.
51% : The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a challenge on free speech grounds to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in a case testing the legality of state efforts to keep minors from viewing such material online.

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