To protect American children, the federal government should adopt an age-verification scheme for adult websites, and states should enact age-verification requirements for social media. The post Primer: Age-Verification for Children’s Online Safety appeared first on The Center for Renewing America .
Introduction In the digital age, vice is more accessible than ever. Smartphones have made pornography free, portable, and instantly available. Unsupervised internet use is widespread, and this development is particularly dangerous for America’s youth. The failure to restrict access to obscene adult content has left minors unprotected, opening the door to addiction and sexual depravity. Recognizing this crisis, many states have instituted age-verification requirements for adult websites and social media platforms. Although the Supreme Court upheld Texas’s age-verification system in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, state legislation continues to face legal challenges. Even so, the long-term effects of these measures are promising.…Open
Bobby Pulido, the Democratic nominee challenging a Republican incumbent in a conservative South Texas congressional district, asked women on social media to send him explicit pictures and posted repeatedly about pornography, then dismissed the posts as misunderstood humor when reporters came calling. A New York Post review of the 55-year-old Latin Grammy winner's social media […] The post Texas Democratic House candidate Bobby Pulido solicited explicit photos from women in years of Spanish-language social media posts appeared first on American Almanac .
Bobby Pulido, the Democratic nominee challenging a Republican incumbent in a conservative South Texas congressional district, asked women on social media to send him explicit pictures and posted repeatedly about pornography, then dismissed the posts as misunderstood humor when reporters came calling. A New York Post review of the 55-year-old Latin Grammy winner's social media history turned up a trail of posts spanning 2013 to 2018 in which Pulido, posting mostly in Spanish from his personal Twitter account, @bobbypulido425, solicited nude photos, shared links to pornographic websites, and engaged with sexually explicit messages from female fans. Several of the posts were deleted only after the Post contacted his campaign for comment. …Open
Americans born after the mid-1990s have lived their entire lives in a world awash with hardcore pornography. Never has so much pornography been so available […] Source