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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.

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[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago

Here's that nanny state Republicans were always talking about

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 34 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Are there graphic gore and violence websites that kids are frequenting by the millions daily?

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Why does scale matter? If it was only 50k kids daily would it change your mind?

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Movies, books, and video games all have a decently sizeable amount, yea. Especially the Bible.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -2 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

No, words don’t count as graphic violence lol. Graphic violence is defined as being in visual media, not written.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 2 points 18 minutes ago

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Books at book stores don’t generally have graphic violence and gore.

...seriously? Go read The Boys or Chainsaw Man or Gantz

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

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!

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 38 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Free speech only applies to saying the N word

-Supreme Court probably some time in the future

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Ah, the ol in haec verba Tarantino rule

[–] basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

I thought they just stuck down the one in Tennessee? What the fuck. Sick of these corrupt courts.