So how broad is this? Can a state now require you to verify your age and identity to read a newspaper they don't like?
Not unless that newspaper is "more than one-third sexual material".
Wanna bet what the ratio is for e.g. Reddit?
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#22You already have to show ID to see rated-R movies in the US. I don't see how this is any different.
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#24So how broad is this? Can a state now require you to verify your age and identity to read a newspaper they don't like?
Not unless that newspaper is "more than one-third sexual material".
This seems pretty easy to get around through either lorem ipsum or inflated pizza related dialogue.
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#25You already have to show ID to see rated-R movies in the US. I don't see how this is any different.
The movie theater doesn't keep a database of who's been watching their movies.
[edit] and that doesn't just mean “okay jimbob is a dirty dirty boy.” It’s also a handy way to create a registry of whatever the handlers think is the target perversion du jour.
[edit][edit] … and it's not even the government who's keeping that database, it's pornographers. Regardless of your political leanings or trust in the gov't, can you imagine a less trustworthy party to hand off your ID to? mein gott
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#27You already have to show ID to see rated-R movies in the US. I don't see how this is any different.
The movie theater doesn't keep a database of who's been watching their movies. [edit] and that doesn't just mean “okay jimbob is a dirty dirty boy.” It’s also a handy way to create a registry of whatever the handlers think is the target perversion du jour. [edit][edit] … and it's not even the government who's keeping that database, it's pornographers. Regardless of your political leanings or trust in the gov't, can y…
Why don’t they?
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#28So how broad is this? Can a state now require you to verify your age and identity to read a newspaper they don't like?
Not unless that newspaper is "more than one-third sexual material".
The archive link
shared by heythere22 (which seems to be a different story) discusses this.
The published plan from the heritage foundation includes a few more steps: (1) redefine obscenity to include pornography, effectively banning it via interstate commerce laws (2) extend this to anything that could “be harmful to minors”, which will certainly include information about groups they don’t like, starting with LGBTQ+.
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#29This will just drive people to non-compliant foreign sites. They just killed their own adult industry, who is gonna take their business and taxes elsewhere
I think your assumption that Texas cares about its porn industries is incorrect. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Afaik it's the #1 porn site, I could be wrong. I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. Registries of porn sites are readily available. (I use them in my hosts file blocking). So, my guess is that the likely step will be block all of them until they prove they have ID enforcem…
Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship, but in practice they want to build a Great Firewall of Texas.
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