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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First? Don't think so.

[YrWrstNtmr]

It is has long been thought that the requirements wouldn't hold up in court, but this is the first actual ruling.

First actual ruling? I would have thought that would be the successful challenges to the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) and the Child Online Protection Act (COPA).

Basically, you cannot prove who is sitting at the keyboard.

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[langelgjm]

Yeah, the porn industry certainly is broad-minded, now that I think about it...