Porn age-verification law upheld by Supreme Court.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On June 27, the Supreme Court voted 6–3 to uphold a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify the age of their visitors. The law, HB 1181, compels sites that contain more than one-third “sexual material harmful to minors” to use “reasonable age verification methods” (such as government identification or other personal documents) to determine whether users are over the age of 18. The challengers argued the law violates the First Amendment by creating an unfair free-speech burden on adults.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. |
| 0:28.9 | Today is Tuesday, July 8th, and we're going to be talking about Free Speech Coalition Inc. v. Paxton, a Supreme Court case about pornography and age verification |
| 0:40.7 | laws and lots of good, interesting debates here. So we're going to jump right in. I'm going |
| 0:46.6 | to send it over to John for today's main podcast, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. for my take. Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. |
| 1:00.5 | Here are your quick hits for today. |
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| 2:12.3 | Sure, well, the Supreme Court just decided one big case and punted on another. |
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