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Three decades into the internet era, the Supreme Court finally appears ready to uphold age-verification laws.

• defrost 2y ago
  ^ Article lede line. Within: A Pornhub spokesperson who goes by Ian (he did not provide a last name) told me that age-verification laws will lead children to seek out porn from even more troubling sources. This is a US story about potential coming restriction on US hosted sites and the requirement for modern semi anonymous ID passes given that: The Supreme Court unanimously struck down this section of the law in the 1997 .. .. repeated the lower court’s finding that “existing technology did not include any effective method for a sender to prevent minors from obtaining access to its communications on the Internet without also denying access to adults.” “Until gateway technology is available throughout cyberspace, and it is not in 1997, a speaker cannot be reasonably assured that the speech he displays will reach only adults because it is impossible to confine speech to an ‘adult zone.’” Now days: In 2018, Louisiana had implemented a digital-ID-card app, called LA Wallet, that state residents could use instead of a physical ID. Schlegel realized that the same system could be used to share a user’s “coarse” age—whether they are older or younger than 18, and nothing else—with a porn company. The “gateway technology” that O’Connor noted didn’t exist in 1997 was now a reality. But, again, this is restricted to US sites so far .. there are many non-US porn sources, a good many that make PornHub look tame.