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SCOTUS Porn Ruling A Boon For Age Verification Companies; 40% Of Americans Now Live Under Anti-Porn Age-Gating Laws (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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The conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled 6-3 in favor of upholding an age verification measure targeting adult content platforms on the internet that the state legislature of Texas adopted during the 2023 legislative session. As a quick reminder, the case is Free Speech Coalition et al. v. Paxton and featured the parent companies of the world’s largest adult tube sites suing the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for targeting speech that is otherwise protected.

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aylo, one of the most visible adult entertainment industry companies, has blocked users in all 20 of those states.

If I were Aylo, I would redirect users in those states to a list of VPN providers.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 1 week ago

Redirecting to the VPN providers might be a little too crass for the shit eating trolls in this country who will only seek to punish them for that.

Were I in their shoes I’d simply do an nginx-style return 444 and drop the connection (assuming they even hit the HTTP server after DNS resolution).

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Age verification software that doesn't, and cannot, work.