The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the President of the United States is above the law, and now it may determine what sites you can jerk it to.
Texas is one of a dozen states with age verification laws requiring sites that serve certain content such as porn to verify the age of users. The Supreme Court will listen to arguments in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton this fall and decide whether all of this is constitutional or not.
In the past year, more states passed similar age verification laws, but the Texas case is getting the Supreme Court treatment after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law back in March. That court did rule against the part of the Texas law requiring porn websites to display a health warning about the supposed effects of watching porn.
The decision made in March led to Aylo, the parent company of adult movie giant Pornhub, to block Texans from accessing the site as well as its sister porn sites. Users in the state were greeted with a very un-sexy message explaining why access to the spank material was denied.
While there are adult sites that are allowing users to access their sites, if caught, they can face stiff fines. A site that doesn’t verify users can be hit with a fine of $10,000 per day, an additional $10,000 per day if the corporation illegally retains identifying information, and $250,000 if a child is exposed to pornographic content due to not properly verifying a user’s age.
Aylo has stated in the past that it does support age verification, however, it doesn’t support the methods to verify users that are laid out in the laws, calling them “ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous.”
