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And none of it matters. Netchoice is shooting down legislation as fast as grandstanding legislators propose it. The bill of rights doesn't have an age limit. If a 10 year old can own an AR-15, that same 10 year old definitely has 1A rights too. Freedom of speech. Freedom of assembly. They can decide who they want to talk to online without a parent getting in the way of it.

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A 10 year old can’t own an AR-15 in many states. But I agree that a 10 year old has 1A rights. The problem is that the Supreme Court shocked everyone when they recently ruled that age verification for porn is legal in a case against the state of Texas. That now has opened the flood gates for more states to violate civil rights.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/scotus-porn-ruling-opens-d...

Porn is obsenity and not covered by free speech. If your kid wants to talk to an adult online, that's not obsenity. That's how kids learn things, from their elders.

Doesn't apply to private companies.

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