The Supreme Court answered this in June 2025 in the Free Speech Coalition v Paxton case, upholding Texas’s age verification law for pornographic websites. The Court held that requiring proof of age to access material that is obscene to minors is consistent with the First Amendment. The ruling is specific to content harmful to minors rather than a blank cheque for all age gating, but claims that age verification laws are inherently unconstitutional no longer reflect the law of the land.
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