Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites

How Appealing reports that a court has struck down age verification requirements for porn sites, as a First Amendment violation. Here is the ruling (PDF). While the average reader here has never been to such a site, porn has been a driving force in the economics and technology of the Net. The age verification requirements of U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2257 were yet another attempt to regulate to death what the government can't outright prohibit. The requirements intruded on the privacy and safety of performers and created headaches for sites like flickr and photobucket that host images. It is has long been thought that the requirements wouldn't hold up in court, but this is the first actual ruling.

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Well duh

[spellraiser]

While the average reader here has never been to such a site, porn has been a driving force in the economics and technology of the Net.

Of course not. People don't go to these sites to read, now do they?

H.M.S. Pornafore

[Scareduck]

While the average reader here has never been to such a site, porn has been a driving force in the economics and technology of the Net.

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Re:Proof of Age of Those Photographed

[Kalriath]

Expect a less sweeping law to be put forth shortly. (IANAL) That's not an acronym you should be using in a story on this topic.