Ambiguous US age verification legislation sets up legal challenges

Putting walls around adult or should-be-adult content online is enticing to U.S. culture warriors, but it’s not easy to do.

Absent guaranteed civil liberties, privacy rights, data breaches and IT-savvy children, age verification would be an easy way to control information access.

That isn’t the case in the United States and still regional governments curry favor with a motivated anti-pornography sector of the electorate by writing thin age-check legislation.

The results are state laws that raise questions and, in the …

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