Over a third of the states either already require age verification for access to porn sites or are in various stages of passing such legislation.
Thus far, one-third of states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia—have enacted legislation to protect children from accessing pornography websites.
The state legislatures of Arizona and Alaska are in the process of passing similar legislation, bringing the total of states currently or soon to be requiring age verification for porn sites to 18.
Late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition from a pro-pornography organization to block Texas from enforcing its age verification laws.
“This effort to protect children from pornography is laudable and demonstrates the…
