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What Would Online Age Verification Mean for Speech, Privacy, and Youth Online Safety? Examining the Potential Impact of Recent Legal Cases and Proposed Legislation
Podcast of policy and book forums, Capitol Hill briefings and other events from the Cato Institute

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Jul 8, 2025

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So this challenge went up, and the Fifth Circuit took a surprising attitude towards the challenge. There were several previous Supreme Court cases dealing with similar federal laws. The most important was a 2004 law called Ashcroft v. ACLU, a challenge to the Child Online Protection Act that was passed by Congress. And in that case, the Supreme Court had affirmed a lower court ruling essentially blocking the law and applying the most rigorous...

Fifth Circuit and Supreme Court Rulings
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