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The Supreme Court's hearing of Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton signals potential limits on First Amendment protections for online pornography.

The case involves a Texas law mandating age verification for websites with "sexual material harmful to minors," challenging the 2004 Ashcroft v. ACLU precedent, which struck down similar laws under strict scrutiny.

Justices, citing the inadequacy of modern filtering tools, seemed inclined to weaken free speech protections, exploring standards like intermediate scrutiny.

The ruling could reshape online speech regulations, leaving adults’ access to sexual content uncertain while tightening restrictions for minors.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ain't the point of a right that it's protected from the government?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

That’s why it goes through the courts

[–] Churlish_Witness@lemmy.world 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

it's so shocking that the right-wing's commitment to free speech was entirely performative and predicated on no principle whatsoever

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yes.... Shocking... I am shocked

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 18 points 8 hours ago

Noooo haha we we can't fix your real problems that you want us to fix because of how we think some witch hunter in the 1600s relates to the constitution, and politics is just hard and moves slow :(

Anyway, here, we shitcanned the constitution for something pretty much nobody asked for and won't actually fix anything. Enjoy <3

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I'm calling it right now. They use this as first amendment cover for TikTok.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 57 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

You gotta be a really profoundly uncomfortable, nervous human being to think of sex as bad.

What an absolute sign of weakness.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You don't have to think sex is bad to think porn is bad for children and teens.

This Texas law and others like it are bullshit, but making strawman arguments about them isn't helping anything.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 25 points 14 hours ago

Or, and hear me out on this one, you're a member of a group, like various other groups, that want to control every aspect of human lives, including sex, to bind them to our little group forever so we can control them even more?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 29 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

You gotta be a really profoundly uncomfortable, nervous human being

That's an interesting way to say "religious".

Project2025 and it's evangelical backers are a major driver of this prudishness.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

They're godsdamned freaks is what they are. Their religion says sex is disgusting and evil. Mine says it's holy and pleasure is sacred. But neither of us should get to decide the law based on what gods we got. I know that. Jewish Americans know that. Hindu Americans know that. Muslim Americans know it too. And I ain't seen Buddhists trying to ban alcohol in any city in America, nor shinto folks trying to divert public school money to preaching about amaterasu. Turns out it's just the Christians round here who don't get that when your religion says you can't do something it means you don't get to do it, but the rest of us are more than free to.

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 32 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Kids are gonna start finding porn the old-fashioned way: randomly coming across discarded magazines at the park. That was my first experience.

[–] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

"Woods" or "Field" porn was surprising common. I was honestly surprised to hear that was so many of my friends (and my) introduction to porn.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Good luck finding a magazine anywhere any more. I assume they can still find it online from random small websites, like in the old days.

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

I was kind of just pointing out that a lot of kids don't go out looking for porn. Porn somehow just shows up because adults are irresponsible.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 31 points 17 hours ago

Or torrents... It would be funny if this just ended up teaching new generations how to torrent.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 24 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think Epstein highlighted that there is a much bigger problem going on than some 15 year old looking up “mum gets railed by football team”.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Too bad he's not around to testify. They did a great job of murdering him behind bars.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If we're banning content harmful to children why dont we start with Capitalist propoganda and religious indoctrination :3

[–] Skymt@feddit.nu 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

And those brain washing shows on YouTube

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 13 hours ago

Both are accurate

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The vague threat of "think of the children maybe being exposed to sexual things" challenging our first amendment right but it becomes some huge debate if a woman is being harassed/stalked/threatened online.

**they are justififying destroying our rights for their feelings **

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 7 points 14 hours ago

they are justififying destroying our rights for their feelings

Well yeah, the P stands for Projection in the party of "facts don't care about your feelings."

[–] esc27@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So we can ban content that is claimed to be harmful to minors but not weapons that actually kill children...

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

Jfc when you put it that way

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Even in terms of speech, it's ridiculous to claim that boobs are more harmful than a social media diet of assholes claiming women or racial minorities aren't people.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 149 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Notice how we're already asking past the sale with the tacit labeling of "sexual material harmful to minors," with the presupposed declaration that sexual material is automatically harmful to minors.

The all-consuming mission to look at boobies is essentially universal for all pubescent boys from about 12 all the way to the age of majority. This is well known, and none of us came off any the worse despite widespread availability of older brothers' back issues of Hustler, Usenet, dial-up BBS systems, and ultimately the world wide web.

If teens weren't naturally interested in sex where wouldn't been all them teenage pregnancies. Q.E.D.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The all-consuming mission to look at boobies is essentially universal for all pubescent boys from about 12 all the way to the age of majority.

Not true. Some boys also want to look at dicks.

[–] dion_starfire@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

And some genuinely could care less about looking at either.

[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

And some girls want to look at boobies, too.

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ideally you wouldn't be using tor for clearweb sites but if you must I suppose that's an option, a VPN would be less detrimental to the tor network though, and is often both faster and more reliable from a user perspective.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

This is the first step on the path to outlawing VPNs.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago

Get ready for the slippery slope. Anything conservatives don’t want you to see or read will be placed behind an “identify yourself” firewall.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (14 children)

It’s just the first amendment.

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