Summary
A federal judge blocked Tennessee’s age verification law for adult websites, ruling it likely violates First Amendment rights without effectively preventing minors’ access.
The law, which required sites to verify users’ ages via ID or data checks, faced criticism for being overly broad and potentially criminalizing innocuous content.
Tennessee’s attorney general is appealing, as similar laws take effect in states like Florida and South Carolina, while others are contested in courts.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Texas’ comparable law on Jan. 15.
The fuck is wrong with this country and its issues with sexuality/nudity?
I remember seeing bare titties on the front of a magazine in the regular supermarket checkout line in Germany as a kid, right there for everyone to see. Their society isn’t falling apart because of it.
It’s setting pretext to subjugate queer people (and eventually genocide trans people)
Florida already tried
It’s also pretext to take away women’s rights because conservative men are horrible people
Y’all Qaeda’s talibangelicals are trying to make their own sharia law. It’s always the same when it comes to religious extremists. Subjugate women, hyper-control morality with an honor culture, control the narrative while rewriting history, keep everyone stupid, indoctrinate the talibangelical way, and funnel money and control to the top.
“In America sex is an obsession. In the rest of the world it is a fact.” -Marlene Dietrich
This is one of those timeless american issues that I’ve always despised our lack of progress with. It seems these regulations are always pushed by some closeted hypocrite who turns out to be everything they claim to despise. Good on this judge, though.