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Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by comrade1234 »

BobbyTables2 wrote: post #2

I don’t understand - was this site or company based in Texas? Otherwise the general idea seems absurd that an individual state could freeze a domain impacting for the whole Internet… (EDIT: I won’t lose any sleep at the loss of such scum but the general principle seems a bit strange.)

It's not confusing and you should understand what's happening for your own safety. This has been happening for a couple of decades internationally and now with USA states.

This result means that Texas can take various means to block motherless. But more importantly no motherless employees should travel to Texas without risk of arrest. Same for abc/youtube/facebook employess traveling to India.

You should be aware of this and monitor it in your industry.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by trhway »

rblatz wrote: post #11

Default judgement, absolutely meaningless at this point as to how a court would rule against a plaintiff that actually showed up, respected the court’s authority, and defended itself.

That is the strategy - you start with the easy cases - somebody who wouldn’t or couldn’t defend themselves and who is “bad” in public perception.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by 15155 »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #29
15155 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What do other countries do who don't have Verisign to lean on? They lean on their ISPs, see Spain and the La Liga controversy.

But that, more appropriately, only affects internet users in that country (ignoring the cloudflare network blocking that causes various other sites to also be blocked). This appears to basically wipe the site from the entire internet, for all countries.

When you create the infrastructure, you make the rules. If a party doesn't like those rules, they are free to create their own replacement infrastructure and obtain global buy-in.

ccTLDs already exist and their respective countries have sovereignty over those TLDs: the UK can disappear any .uk domain name it wants from the global internet.

The .com TLD is American, and is therefore subject to American legal proceedings.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by msftgreed »

So a state (or municipality or anyone capable of making laws) has the ability to say, "You don't meet our local laws, take down your URL" now?

This is going to be a real problem when states start nuking whole parts of the internet from orbit. A state has a law against conversion therapy and starts to remove sites with that? A state has a law against trans people? Or abortion? Or medical misinformation? Suddenly we just start purging sites back and forth?

Battlegrounds end up as torn up, muddy, desolate places. Turning the domain registry into a battleground is a bad idea. Over the long term, no one wins if we choose to fight there.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by toomuchtodo »

regecks wrote: post #28
zzril wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More interesting would be the IP!

You don't need it, they've migrated to motherless.xxx.

> Stuart Lawley, the CEO of ICM Registry--the company behind the XXX top level domains, says XXX sites should help empower parents to keep their kids away from adult content.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/man-behind-xxx-domains-say...

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by pixl97 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #16
pixl97 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All fun and games till religions get in battles and shut down websites talking about gods and beliefs they don't like.

All speech does not deserve the same protection, certainly not unlimited protection, says SCOTUS. Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce law requiring age verification and parental consent on apps - https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/supreme-court-allows-texa... - July 6th, 2026 Supreme Court allows Texas’ law on age-verification for pornography sites - https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/court-allows-texas-law-on... -…

Right, that's why speech by white Christians males should be protected, and not any of those Muslims or gay people.

Now, I say this mockingly, my neighbors (yes I live in Texas) say such things with a steadfast belief. Which is really weird to me because they keep electing adulterers and rapists.

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by tailscaler2026 »

BobbyTables2 wrote: post #2

I don’t understand - was this site or company based in Texas? Otherwise the general idea seems absurd that an individual state could freeze a domain impacting for the whole Internet… (EDIT: I won’t lose any sleep at the loss of such scum but the general principle seems a bit strange.)

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Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by TurdF3rguson »

comrade1234 wrote: post #31
BobbyTables2 wrote: post #2

I don’t understand - was this site or company based in Texas? Otherwise the general idea seems absurd that an individual state could freeze a domain impacting for the whole Internet… (EDIT: I won’t lose any sleep at the loss of such scum but the general principle seems a bit strange.)

It's not confusing and you should understand what's happening for your own safety. This has been happening for a couple of decades internationally and now with USA states. This result means that Texas can take various means to block motherless. But more importantly no motherless employees should travel to Texas without risk of arrest. Same for abc/youtube/facebook employess traveling to India. You should be aware of…

I would think it only applies to named employees, right?

Re: Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

BobbyTables2 wrote: post #2

I don’t understand - was this site or company based in Texas? Otherwise the general idea seems absurd that an individual state could freeze a domain impacting for the whole Internet… (EDIT: I won’t lose any sleep at the loss of such scum but the general principle seems a bit strange.)

> I won’t lose any sleep at the loss of such scum but the general principle seems a bit strange.

That's generally key in making a precedent. The first case is someone nobody really cares for, but it's built a precedent where the next case must follow suit.

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