Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Texas Law Limiting Access to Pornography. The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/supreme-court-texas-law-porn.html

Of course the government wants more control over the internet and they're using kids as an excuse to do it. If you ask me, this is an assault on both our privacy and the First Amendment. I hope the Supreme Court does the right thing and protects the First Amendment. Do we really wanna give the government even more control over the internet?

What does the future state of the internet look like? Will our currently free and open internet remain free and open or will the government just keep on seizing more and more control over the internet?

The government always wants more control over our lives!

From the article:

Judge David Alan Ezra, of the Federal District Court in Austin, blocked the law, saying it would have a chilling effect on speech protected by the First Amendment.

By verifying information through government identification, the law allows the government “to peer into the most intimate and personal aspects of people’s lives,” wrote Judge Ezra, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

“It runs the risk that the state can monitor when an adult views sexually explicit materials and what kind of websites they visit,” he continued. “In effect, the law risks forcing individuals to divulge specific details of their sexuality to the state government to gain access to certain speech.”