Once wide open, internet being fenced with age checks

Moved by a moral context, politically conservative U.S. states are lining up to pass age-verification laws designed to keep children from accessing internet pornography.

Texas is the seventh and latest state to do so. Louisiana was the first state, in January, to require proof of age by uploading an image of the person's government-issued license.

Free Speech Coalition, an association promoting the interests of what it describes as the adult industry, divides verification laws and bills into two categories …

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