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With age verification, lawmakers seek solutions for problems best handled by parents
A state law that seeks to monitor the internet is not the answer. Lawmakers should put their efforts into making sure parents have the resources… learn more ▸
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Regulating Access to Adult Content Doesn’t Justify Flouting the First Amendment and Long-Established Precedent
Ensuring minors’ safety is an important and worthy objective, but the means of accomplishing this goal must be constitutional. learn more ▸
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How age verification could push children to dark sites
Either people are going to darker websites or they’re using VPNs, neither of which are good policy outcomes. learn more ▸
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Thoughtful, lawful protections needed to guard children on the internet
We do not want South Dakota taxpayer dollars awarded to pornographers by a judge because we passed a bad law. learn more ▸
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Why Are Conservatives Handing Parental Choices to Government?
Age verification does not necessarily keep kids off adult sites. What it does is complicate liability in cases when kids do experience bad things online.… learn more ▸
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SCOTUS Preview – Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton
Appellate & Constitutional law attorney Lisa Blatt previewed 2024 Supreme Court case Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton. learn more ▸
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Internet “Child Safety” Laws Overlook Young People With Disabilities
[S]mall companies are turning to a rapidly growing cottage industry of age verification vendors. These methods peddle another imperfect science, asserting that machine learning technologies… learn more ▸
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Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns
“It is clear from the roadmap at present, each type of age verification or age assurance technology comes with its own privacy, security, effectiveness or… learn more ▸
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Lawmakers must learn from our own mistakes
“If we want to equitably advance the interests of all Arizonans next year, the time for quick fixes and overly partisan policy proposals must come… learn more ▸
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Censoring the internet won’t protect kids
KOSA is an internet-wide regulation, which effectively means that the only way to comply with the law is for platforms to verify ages. So adults… learn more ▸
