{"id":942226,"date":"2025-06-30T07:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942226"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:30:42","slug":"us-supreme-court-upholds-childproofing-porn-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/us-supreme-court-upholds-childproofing-porn-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court handed down a decision on June 27, 2025, that will reshape how states protect children online. In a case assessing a Texas law requiring age verification to access porn sites, the court created a new legal path that makes it easier for states to craft laws regulating what kids see and do on the internet. <\/p>\n<p>In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled in Free Speech Coalition Inc. v. Paxton that Texas&#8217; law obligating porn sites to block access to underage users is constitutional. The law requires pornographic websites to verify users&#8217; ages &#8211; for example by making users scan and upload their driver&#8217;s license &#8211; before granting access to content that is deemed obscene for minors but not adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court handed down a decision on June 27, 2025, that will reshape how states protect children online. In a case assessing a Texas law requiring age verification to access porn sites, the court created a new legal path that makes it easier for states to craft laws regulating what kids see and do on the internet. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled in Free Speech Coalition Inc. v. Paxton that Texas&#8217; law obligating porn sites to block access to underage users is constitutional. The law requires pornographic websites to verify users&#8217; ages &#8211; for example by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}