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Home Possession of AI-Generated Porn Depicting Fake Children Remains Constitutionally Protected, Seventh Circuit Rules

From U.S. v. Anderegg, decided Tuesday by Seventh Circuit Judge John Lee, joined by Judges Doris Pryor and Joshua Kolar:… The post Home Possession of AI-Generated Porn Depicting Fake Children Remains Constitutionally Protected, Seventh Circuit Rules appeared first on Reason.com.

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Skrmetti, Mahmoud, and Free Speech Coalition - "Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?"

I think Skrmetti, Mahmoud, and Free Speech Coalition can be summed up in a meme: Won't somebody please think of the Children? But more… The post Skrmetti, Mahmoud, and Free Speech Coalition - "Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?" appeared first on Reason.com.

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Free Speech Coalition Brings Text, History, and Tradition to the Free Speech Clause

Justice Thomas tries to Bruenify free speech doctrine, but I'm not sure it will work.

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Free Speech Unmuted: The Supreme Court Rules on Protecting Kids from Sexually Themed Speech Online

My co-host Jane Bambauer and I discuss the Court's June 27 decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, which upheld… The post Free Speech Unmuted: The Supreme Court Rules on Protecting Kids from Sexually Themed Speech Online appeared first on Reason.com.

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Clarence Thomas Undermines Free Speech in Porn Site Age-Verification Case

The Supreme Court's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton weakens the First Amendment rights of adults everywhere.

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Today's Porn Age Verification Decision Doesn't Consider Minors' First Amendment Rights More Broadly

What are the First Amendment rights of minors? You might imagine two extreme positions: Minors have the same rights as… The post Today's Porn Age Verification Decision Doesn't Consider Minors' First Amendment Rights More Broadly appeared first on Reason.com.

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"See (Sorry)": A New Citation Signal

A nice touch, I thought, in Justice Kagan's dissent in today's Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton: To account for that… The post "See (Sorry)": A New Citation Signal appeared first on Reason.com.

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Porn, Guns, Marriage, and Voting

From today's majority opinion by Justice Thomas in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton: Age-verification laws like H. B. 1181 fall… The post Porn, Guns, Marriage, and Voting appeared first on Reason.com.

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Supreme Court bans anyone under 18 from viewing pornography in Texas

Texas law seeks to prevent people under18 from viewing explicit content

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Predictions For The Remaining 15 Cases

Barring any surprises, I do not expect any surprises.

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Congratulations to the Finalists of the Harlan Institute OT 2024 Virtual Supreme Court Competition

High School Students from Oregon and Texas argued before a panel of three federal judges and visited the United States Supreme Court.

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Harlan Virtual Supreme Court Round of Four

Ten teams of high school students presented oral arguments on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton.

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Harlan Virtual Supreme Court Round of Ten

Ten teams of high school students presented oral arguments on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton.

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Harlan Virtual Supreme Court Semifinalists

Twenty-two teams of high school students presented oral arguments on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton.

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Legal fight against AI-generated child pornography is complicated – a legal scholar explains why, and how the law could catch up

The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was shaken by revelations in December 2023 that two local teenage boys shared hundreds of nude images of girls in their community over a private chat on the social chat platform Discord. Witnesses said the photos easily could have been mistaken for real ones, but…

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Supreme Court Justice Appears Unfamiliar with Pornhub During Free Speech Hearing: 'Is It Like the Old Playboy Magazine?'

While considering a First Amendment case about access to explicit websites online, Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito appeared to be unfamiliar with websites such as PornHub, asking representing attorneys about the kinds of content available on such websites.

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Alito: Do you read Pornhub for articles?

The Supreme Court justice wondered if the porn site was like "old Playboy" during oral arguments

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Free Speech Unmuted: I Know It When I See It: Free Speech and Obscenity Laws

Jane Bambauer and I discuss the various rules the Court applies in obscenity cases and the forthcoming Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton decision, which deals with "obscene-as-to-minors" material (not to be confused with child pornography). Fun fact: Associate Justice Potter Stewart, who wrote the "I know it when I see…

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Interesting Stay Dispute in Seventh Circuit Minors'-Access-to-Porn Case

From Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Rokita, decided Friday by Judges Frank Easterbrook and Amy St. Eve: Indiana seeks a stay of the preliminary injunction that a district court entered preventing the enforcement of Ind. Code § 24-4-23, which requires web sites to limit minors' access to certain sexual materials.…

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Judges Block Indiana and Mississippi Age Verification Laws for Porn, Social Media

And the Supreme Court agrees to weigh in.

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S. Ct. Will Decide: May States Require Age Verification to Access Porn Sites?

The Court just agreed to hear this case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. You can read the majority and dissenting opinions in the Fifth Circuit here, and the petition, response, and reply here. Here's the issue in a nutshell: 1. Ginsberg v. N.Y.(1968) held (in a majority opinion by Justice…

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Brief Challenging Texas Restriction on "Sexual Gesticulations Using Accessories or Prosthetics That Exaggerate … Sexual Characteristics"

I was delighted to sign on to this amicus brief supporting the challenge to Texas's S.B. 12 (Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton (5th Cir.)), which was filed on behalf of Prof. Dale Carpenter (SMU), Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley), the Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School, and me.…

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