Category: age verification

Fayetteville Public Library v. Crawford County, Arkansas

The U.S. District Court granted a preliminary injunction blocking a law that would require booksellers and librarians to limit their books appropriate to all minors only or exclude all minors from their premises. Another provision on the law allows any person in Arkansas to demand the removal of a book that the person deems inappropriate.

Oklahoma Senate Bill 864

S.B. 864 is a mandatory filtering bill that would bar anyone from manufacturing, distributing, or selling any product that makes content accessible on the internet from doing business in the state unless the product has active and operating “digital blocking capability” that blocks access to obscene material.

Rhode Island Senate Bill 2584

Rhode Island Senate Bill 2584 is an HTPA bill, which requires Internet Service Providers to provide filtering software that renders “sexual content and/or patently offensive material” inaccessible with any service or product it sells or leases.

Maryland Senate Bill 585

S.B. 585 is an HTPA bill that bars manufacturers, distributors and sellers of devices capable of accessing content on the internet from doing business in the state unless each device has an active and operating digital blocking capability that blocks access to obscene material and websites that facilitate human trafficking and prostitution.

Kansas Senate Bill 363

S.B. 363 is an HTPA bill that bars an internet service provider from selling or leasing to a consumer any product or service that makes content accessible on the internet, unless that product or service contains an active and operating technology that blocks access to “obscene content.”

Iowa House Study Bill 523

H.S.B. 523 is an HTPA bill that bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating filtering software that blocks access to obscene for minors material, “revenge pornography” and any website that facilitates or promotes prostitution or human trafficking.

Hawaii Senate Bill 2838

S.B. 2838 is an HTPA bill that bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device “contains” filtering software that blocks “pornographic” material, and the software must block “obscene” material if the manufacture, sale or distribution is to a minor.

Hawaii Senate Bill 2478

S.B. 2478 is an HTPA bill that bars anyone from selling a device that provides internet access unless it contains an “active” filter that blocks access to sites containing “obscene” content that promotes or facilitates prostitution or “cyberharassment,” images of “cyberharassment” and non-obscene solicitations or offers for prostitution or assignations.

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