The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to review a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a Texas law that requires all visitors to some websites to provide the site operator with evidence of their identity and age.
The Texas law applies to all visitors to any website “more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors.” It doesn’t matter if you are an adult, none of the material on the site is obscene or illegal (“harmful to minors” doesn’t mean obscene or illegal for adults) , or you want to access portions of the site — perhaps the majority — that aren’t considered harmful to minors. You still have to identify yourself to the site operator by “digital identification,”…
