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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Two big tech cases at the Supreme Court, as the justices consider a challenge to a Texas law,

mandating that porn websites verify the ages of their users.

Meantime, the political world awaits a ruling on the TikTok social media app with only

days to go until the law says it must be divested from Chinese ownership or else banned from

U.S. app stores. Welcome. I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my

colleagues, columnists Alicia Finley, and Kim Strassel.

On Wednesday, the argument at the Supreme Court will be in a case called Free Speech Coalition versus Paxton.

It's a challenge to a 2023 law on age verification passed by the state of Texas, though several other states have also moved similar provisions.

The statute in Texas says that websites whose content is at least one-third, quote,

sexual material harmful to minors, unquote, must begin deploying reasonable age verification methods.

The challengers are arguing that this ends up putting too big of a burden on the First

Amendment rights of adults, saying that it causes them to incur severe privacy and security

risks in order to access constitutionally protected speech. Alicia, what do you make of this case?

Some of the arguments seem to come down on what exactly the level of scrutiny

is that the justices think should apply to this claim. A lot of states are passing these kinds of

laws in part because it's very easy for minors to access porn nowadays on the web and especially

on their mobile phones. There are ways that parents can actually help content

filtering screen out porn. These aren't perfect. But this actually gets to the rubber with the

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