Supreme Court Allows Texas to Enforce Porn Age-Verification Law

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas to continue enforcing a law requiring online age verification to access pornographic websites.

The one-sentence order was handed down by the high court without comment or public dissent on April 30. Challengers of the law argue that it compromises free speech and opens users to privacy violations.

The 2023 law requires commercial entities “that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on any Internet website, including a social media platform, more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors, shall use reasonable age verification methods” to verify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older.”

The law also requires pornography websites to include “health warnings” on their landing page using a 14-point font or larger.

“TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: pornography is potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function,” reads one of the required warnings.

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