Josh Gerstein reports:
The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older.
The justices rejected a First Amendment challenge to the law. The court said in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that protecting children from sexually explicit material online justifies the burden that the age-verification requirement puts on adults.
Twenty-four states have passed laws mandating age verification for adult websites, but several of the statutes were put on hold by lower courts.
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