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Coverage dated June 26, 2025

Texas porn age verification law upheld by Supreme Court

Headline from ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that requires age verification for pornographic websites in one of the most closely watched First Amendment cases to arrive at the high court in years.

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  1. Engadget

    Supreme Court upholds Texas's porn site age verification law (opens Engadget)

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    Critics contend it threatens the First Amendment and user privacy.

  2. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    Texas porn age verification law upheld by Supreme Court (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that requires age verification for pornographic websites in one of the most closely watched First Amendment cases to arrive at the high court in years.

  3. Salt Lake Tribune

    Supreme Court upholds Texas law limiting access to pornography (opens Salt Lake Tribune)

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    The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children under 18 from seeing online pornography.

  4. KEYT Santa Barbara

    Texas porn age verification law upheld by Supreme Court | News Channel 3-12 (opens KEYT Santa Barbara)

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    By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that requires age verification for pornographic websites in one of the

  5. New York Post

    Supreme Court rules on Texas age verification law for adult websites (opens New York Post)

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    “The statute advances the State’s important interest in shielding children from sexually explicit content,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion.

  6. Texas Standard

    Supreme Court sides with Texas’ age verification law for porn sites (opens Texas Standard)

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    The ruling is the first time that the court has imposed requirements on adult consumers in order to protect minors from having access to sexually explicit material.

  7. Deseret News

    Supreme Court upholds law protecting minors from pornography (opens Deseret News)

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    Utah’s age verification law sent Pornhub running

  8. The Boston Globe

    Supreme Court upholds Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing pornography online (opens The Boston Globe)

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    The 6-3 ruling comes after an adult-entertainment industry trade group called the Free Speech Coalition challenged the Texas law.

  9. NPR

    Supreme Court sides with Texas's age verification law for porn sites (opens NPR)

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    The ruling is the first time that the court has imposed requirements on adult consumers in order to protect minors from having access to sexually explicit material.

  10. Townhall

    The Supreme Court Just Ruled on This State's Pornography Law (opens Townhall)

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    Supreme Court affirms Texas law mandating age verification for pornographic websites to protect minors.

  11. Roll Call

    Supreme Court upholds Texas age-verification law for online porn (opens Roll Call)

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    The Supreme Court upheld a Texas law that required pornography websites to verify the age of their users in a ruling Friday.

  12. The 19th

    Supreme Court clears the way for increased age verification for porn sites (opens The 19th)

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    The case concerned age verification “porn ID” laws and whether they were an appropriate regulation.

  13. The Daily Signal

    Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law for Porn Sites (opens The Daily Signal)

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    The Texas law required online porn companies to verfiy the users are adults before allowing viewing.

  14. Cowboy State Daily

    Supreme Court Upholds Porn Age Verification Days Before Wyo Law Takes Effect (opens Cowboy State Daily)

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    A Supreme Court ruling upholding a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify visitors are adults protects Wyoming’s new age-verification law as…

  15. Indiana Capital Chronicle

    U.S. Supreme Court upholds Texas porn age verification law, validating Indiana’s statute • Indiana Capital Chronicle (opens Indiana Capital Chronicle)

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    The ruling for Texas allows a similar law in Indiana, which has been on hold since November 2024, to potentially move forward.

  16. The Daily Caller

    Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn Age Verification Law (opens The Daily Caller)

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    The Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring porn websites to verify the age of their visitors on Friday.

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