Now, the United States Supreme Court has made a decision on a key age verification law, which could have ramifications for the entire country and the wider internet as a whole. In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan argued that the Texas law imposes a direct and unconstitutional burden on adults’ access to protected speech. Adult industry group the Free Speech Coalition, among others, challenged the Texas law on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment by restricting adults’ access to constitutionally protected speech. In March last year, a Fifth Circuit appeals court upheld the Texas law before the Free Speech Coalition took the case to the Supreme Court in a January hearing. In recent years, a wave of age verification laws have been proposed in states across the country.