Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. The Court ruled that “no person—adult or child—has a First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting proof of age.” This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy. These are real and immense burdens on adults, and the Court was wrong to ignore them in upholding Texas’ law.
Here’s that nanny state Republicans were always talking about
Pretty sure “Nanny state” is a popular category of porn
But there’s no such legislation or required identification for my kids to see graphic violence and gore. We’re a pretty bass ackwards society.
ironic you self censored “ass backwards” on a comment calling out censorship.
they wrote ass backwards ass backwards. It’s a joke, not self censorship.
We’re so ass backwards my go-to thought was the censored version.
Are there graphic gore and violence websites that kids are frequenting by the millions daily?
YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Disney+, Max, etc. And that’s before we get into the bad faith false equivalence of comparing violence to nudity and sexuality. One is a natural and beautiful part of life, the other is literally violence.
Why does scale matter? If it was only 50k kids daily would it change your mind?
Movies, books, and video games all have a decently sizeable amount, yea. Especially the Bible.
Movies already have ratings systems and age checks.
Books at book stores don’t generally have graphic violence and gore.
The bible is just text, there’s no gore or violence that kids can see.
What’s funny is the Bible is worse than most of the books that are banned as far as depravity goes.
Movies already have ratings systems and age checks.
Lol.
Books at book stores don’t generally have graphic violence and gore.
You realize words still count right?
The bible is just text, there’s no gore or violence that kids can see.
I repeat the above.
No, words don’t count as graphic violence lol. Graphic violence is defined as being in visual media, not written.
if that’s the case, I hope you fall down the stairs and snap your tibia out of your skin and have to lay in your own pooling blood crying out in pain and anguish waiting for someone to call for help. only to have waited so long that you throw up on yourself and your gaping wound whilst you go into shock from blood loss.
how’s that make you feel?
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Books at book stores don’t generally have graphic violence and gore.
…seriously? Go read The Boys or Chainsaw Man or Gantz
Nah bro didn’t you see his other reply? Words aren’t graphic in any way ever. It’s in the word. Graphic. There’s no graphics in books, it don’t have a graphics card!
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Free speech only applies to saying the N word
-Supreme Court probably some time in the future
Ah, the ol in haec verba Tarantino rule
Am I the only one who beleives that it would have been a more effective arguement to try and use the 4th amendment instead of the 1st? Violating free speech is just a weak claim, but “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches…” seems quite relevent here. But I am also not a lawyer.
I thought they just stuck down the one in Tennessee? What the fuck. Sick of these corrupt courts.
