Credit: TexasGOPVote.com The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed Texas’s right to shield minors from the flood of pornographic content plaguing the internet. The decision in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton (2025) upholds H.B. 1181, a Texas law requiring websites with substantial sexual content to verify users’ ages before granting access. The Court, in a 6-3 decision led by Justice Clarence Thomas, rejected the radical left’s claims that the law violates free speech. The majority rightly recognized that protecting kids from harmful, sexually explicit content is a compelling state interest—one that outweighs the complaints of adult entertainment peddlers. Texas’s law, which mandates age verification through government-issued ID or transactional data, was deemed a reasonable and tailored solution to a growing crisis. “No person—adult or child—has…
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