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.

  • JackbyDev
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    639 days ago

    Parental controls: exist

    Puritans: No, not like that!

    • @9tr6gyp3
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      19 days ago

      Im trying to imagine the parental portal for this lol

        • @9tr6gyp3
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          48 days ago

          No, i meant granular controls through a parental account that is set on a child account, like how most parental controls are for services. Its just a funny thought.

          “My kid can only watch a certain genre!”

  • TimeSquirrel
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    419 days ago

    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.

    • Tiefling IRL
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      9 days ago

      It’s setting pretext to subjugate queer people (and eventually genocide trans people)

      Florida already tried

      • FenrirIII
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        48 days ago

        It’s also pretext to take away women’s rights because conservative men are horrible people

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      68 days ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 days ago

      “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.

  • Flying Squid
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    149 days ago

    I guess never underestimate a judge’s need to wank.

  • wildncrazyguy138
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    89 days ago

    Somewhere on January 15th, there will be a proud collector of colonial age smut who finally gets to bask in all of their glory.

    And the ankles and the collarbones will once again have their comeuppance.