2023-08-31 19:30:00
O Pornhub managed to obtain an injunction in the United States Court once morest a law that required age verification on pornographic websites in Texas. As a result, the application of the norm was temporarily suspended, but the legal battle is expected to continue.
US District Judge David Alan Ezra granted the injunction following a group called the “Coalition for Free Speech (FSC)” joined adult artists and websites such as Pornhub in a lawsuit once morest the new Texas law. .
The magistrate found that the Texas law violates the First Amendment to the US Constitution and would have “a chilling effect on legally protected speech.” Now, the state will have to wait until this process is completed to enforce the law.
However, communications director for the Texas Attorney General’s Office, Paige Willey, told the Ars Technica website that the prosecution will take all legal steps in its power to lift the injunction, so it will appeal that decision.
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Those who defend the law, which had its application suspended today, say that the idea is to protect children from pornographic content. For this, it would be necessary to verify the age of users on all sites of the genre that have activity in Texas.
The law, set to take effect on Sept. 1, would have given the Attorney General the power to fine a website with adult content more than $3 million a year if it did not require visitors to present a digital ID.
Those who criticize the law, such as Pornhub, maintain that, in addition to concerns regarding freedom of expression, the legislation needs to be ignored as it would have exposed consumers to “significant privacy risks” by forcing the identification of visitors to adult sites.
It’s worth remembering that Pornhub has been protesting similar laws in Louisiana and even took the unexpected step of blocking access to its site when the states of Utah, Mississippi and Virginia passed age verification laws.
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