{"id":2233893,"date":"2024-04-30T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-pornography-industry-plea-to-block-texas-age-verification-law\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:14:48","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-pornography-industry-plea-to-block-texas-age-verification-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-pornography-industry-plea-to-block-texas-age-verification-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court denies porn industry&#8217;s request to halt Texas age verification law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-rejects-pornography-industry-plea-to-block-texas-age-verification-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2233893&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2064 Supreme Court\u2063 rejected\u2063 the porn\u2064 industry&#8217;s plea to block Texas&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-dont-let-the-chinese-communist-party-protect-kids-from-screens-more-than-you-do\/\" title=\"Parents, Don\u2019t Let The Chinese Communist Party Protect Kids From Screens More Than You Do\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-700-survivors-advocates-call-on-congress-for-criminal-investigation-into-pornhubs-parent-company\/\" title=\"Over 700 Survivors, Advocates Call On Congress For Criminal Investigation Into Pornhub\u2019s Parent Company\">age verification<\/a> law<\/a> on porn sites, aiming to protect children. Justice Alito&#8217;s order maintained\u2063 the \u2062law, causing major \u2063sites like Pornhub\u2062 to halt operations\u2062 in Texas.\u2062 The industry argued \u2064that the\u2063 law infringed on adults&#8217; \u2062rights\u200b by requiring personal information for website access. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australian-journalist-biden-making-world-more-dangerous-destroying-military-with-wokesters\/\" title=\"Australian Journalist: Biden Making World \u2018More Dangerous,\u2019 Destroying Military With \u2018Wokesters\u2019\">full court<\/a> will\u200b further review the appeal while the law stays \u200cin \u2063force.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Supreme Court<\/a> rejected an emergency plea from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pornography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>pornography industry<\/a> to stop the enforcement of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Texas<\/a> age verification law imposed on pornography sites, allowing the Lone Star State to continue the policy it enacted to protect children.<\/p>\n<p>The order from Justice Samuel Alito came down Tuesday without explanation or a public dissent, but it left in place the law that prompted Pornhub, one of the most trafficked pornography sites in the world, to cease operation in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-April, adult industry trade organization Free Speech Coalition joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union to ask the Supreme Court to stop the law, arguing that the law aimed at stopping children from viewing pornography actually harms the rights of adults.<\/p>\n<p>The pornography industry said the laws violated the First Amendment rights of adults by asking them to submit personal information to use the pornography websites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, the act requires adults to comply with intrusive age verification measures that mandate the submission of personally identifying information over the internet in order to access websites containing sensitive and intimate content,\u201d the industry wrote in court filings.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal will continue to be weighed by the full court, but the law will remain in effect as that appeal progresses. The Texas law carries a $10,000 fine per violation, which could be raised to $250,000 for a minor.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas filings, state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) said the law \u201csimply requires the pornography industry that makes billions of dollars from peddling smut to take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that those who access the material are adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge had blocked the law initially, a move that barred both age verification and health warning requirements, but the decision was reversed in March by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In the circuit court\u2019s decision, a divided panel upheld the age verification law but maintained that requiring websites to publish health warnings they disagreed with violated their rights.<\/p>\n<p>Those warnings included messages that pornography is addictive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/skip-sweet-treats-to-avoid-holiday-blues\/\" title=\"Skip Sweet Treats to Avoid Holiday Blues\">negatively affects mental health<\/a> and development, and increases prostitution and child exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Stabile, spokesperson for Free Speech Coalition, said the group views the case as a fight for \u201cthe right to access the internet without intrusive government oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Supreme Court has denied our application to stay the Fifth Circuit\u2019s decision upholding age verification requirements in Texas, our petition for full merits review before the Supreme Court remains pending,\u201d Stabile said.\u00a0\u201cThe ruling by the Fifth Circuit remains in direct opposition to decades of Supreme Court precedent, and we remain hopeful that the Supreme Court will grant our petition for certiorari and reaffirm its lengthy line of cases applying strict scrutiny to content-based restrictions on speech like those in the Texas statute we\u2019ve challenged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia all have similar age verification laws, and Pornhub has stopped operation in many of those states as well.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to the ACLU for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court denied an emergency plea from the porn industry to halt Texas&#8217;s age verification law on porn sites. 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