Purveyors of online pornography will have to verify that their customers are adults before giving access to the content, ...

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify users’ ages through ...

The dismissal does not affect a separate lawsuit challenging another part of last year's law (HB 3) that seeks to prevent children under age 16 from opening social-media accounts on some platforms.

A recent poll has revealed that the majority of American adults’ beliefs align with recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings ...

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Texas’ age verification law for porn websites will likely have a ripple effect across the internet — and not just for the vast numbers of people who watch online ...

And it paves the way for federal legislation that would protect all children across the United States. At the heart of the ...

In an era when the judiciary is often seen as a battleground for ideological warfare, the recent rulings from the Supreme ...

Bluesky users in the UK will soon need to verify their age if they want continued access to direct messages and all of the ...

Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” ...

Reddit has begun enforcing age verification for users in the United Kingdom in response to the country’s new Online Safety ...

Lawsuit Challenging Age Verification for Adult Content Websites Concludes A federal lawsuit challenging Florida's law requiring age verification for access to websites containing pornographic content ...

This means that Texas’s requirement for verification applies not only to children and teenagers but to adult internet users too. While the Supreme Court decision tries to limit its application to ...