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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Age restrictions for porn

INDIANAPOLIS — A federal court in Indiana blocked a porn age-restriction law from going into effect next week while the underlying case proceeds. The court said the law is “likely unconstitutional” because the Supreme Court struck down a similar rule, though one that required credit card verification instead of driver’s license verification, in its 2004 Ashcroft II ruling.

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