Kansas moves to join Texas and other states in requiring porn sites to verify people's ages
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Kansas is poised to require internet pornography sites to verify that visitors are adults. It would join Texas and a handful of other states despite concerns about privacy and how broadly the law could be applied.

In Kansas, some critics questioned whether the measure would violate free speech and press rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment…

But critics of the bill, mostly Democrats, argued that the law could be interpreted broadly enough that LGBTQ+ teenagers could not access information about sexual orientation or gender identity because the legal definition of sexual conduct includes acts of “homosexuality.”

    • Rx_Hawk [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I couldn’t find the text of the bill, but from a different story: "The bill would not require a specific method of age verification, only outlining that sites could use any “commercially reasonable method” approved by the Kansas attorney general.”

      And if you haven’t heard of our piece of shit AG: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kobach “As Secretary of State of Kansas, Kobach implemented some of the strictest voter identification laws in the history of the United States and fought to remove nearly 20,000 registered voters from the state’s voter rolls.”