Comments on: Fifth Circuit Once Again Disregards Supreme Court Precedent and Mangles Section 230–Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/03/fifth-circuit-once-again-disregards-supreme-court-precedent-and-mangles-section-230-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:02:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Pornhub blocks all of Texas to protest state law—Paxton says “good riddance” | Ars Technica https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/03/fifth-circuit-once-again-disregards-supreme-court-precedent-and-mangles-section-230-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm#comment-4191 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:02:40 +0000 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=26178#comment-4191 […] The age-verification question could eventually go to the Supreme Court. "This opinion will be appealed to the Supreme Court, alongside other cases over statutes imposing mandatory age authentication," Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman wrote. […]

]]> By: Bob https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/03/fifth-circuit-once-again-disregards-supreme-court-precedent-and-mangles-section-230-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm#comment-4193 Fri, 15 Mar 2024 02:19:00 +0000 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=26178#comment-4193 I’m willing to buy an argument that holding one’s website out as a publishing platform for pornographic material could invite some legal duties. I see it as effectively a solicitation for content that is subject to certain regulations. Obviously the extent of those duties, applied to what is effectively a library, could only be quite limited.

But rational basis scrutiny? I can’t even. Squaring this decision with Ginsburg, even if you pretend that’s the correct precedent, requires hallucinating into that decision some substantial discussion of age verification practices.

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