Tennessee’s Age-Verification Law for Porn Sites Blocked in Court

Tennessee can’t enforce a law that requires websites offering sexual content to verify users’ ages after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction.

The Protect Tennessee Minors Act required websites to verify ages every hour through a “reasonable” method if they provided a significant amount of content that could be harmful to minors. It “likely violates the First Amendment,” the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee said Monday.

While Tennessee “has a compelling interest in protecting children from harmful content,” Judge Sheryl H. Lipman said that the law “will unavoidably suppress a large amount of speech that ...