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Make GFY Great Again
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Join Date: May 2022
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 11,191
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Originally Posted by Major (Tom)
This isn’t trump, moron. These are bipartisan bills. Uniparty bs. This is the covid passport the shit libs never got.
Those who supported tubes did this. The attorneys, the processors, the magazines, etc. the adult industry always sits on the black dildo of consequences. Every. Single. Time.
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You can't own a single thing in regards to Conservatives. Those pushing, lobbying for and introducing bills are almost entirely Republicans.
But hey, blaming tubes again is cute. As if they would be fine with all the other porn out there as long as it didn't end in tube.com 
But to be fair, they only told you what they would do, wrote it down, bragged about it at every step and then did it. Anyone could have missed that!
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📍 Texas House Bill 1181 (88th Legislature, 2023)
HB 1181 was introduced in the Texas House by Rep. Cody Harris Leach (R) as the committee substitute sponsor, replacing the original author Rep. Shaheen (R). It was co‑sponsored by approximately 20 Republican legislators, including Reps. Bettencourt (R), Alvarado (R), Birdwell (R), Campbell (R), Creighton (R), Flores (R), Hall (R), Hinojosa (R), Huffman (R), Hughes (R), King (R), Kolkhorst (R), LaMantia (R), Menéndez (R), Middleton (R), Parker (R), Perry (R), Sparks (R), West (R), and Zaffirini (R), making it a strongly GOP‑backed effort
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The legislation was publicly championed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who defended HB 1181 in courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Advocacy in support also came from a coalition of Republican state attorneys general and conservative lawmakers. The bill faced opposition from civil‑liberties organizations such as the ACLU, EFF, and Free Speech Coalition, which warned of privacy infringements and First Amendment violations
On the House floor vote (RV#1285), HB 1181 passed 135–5: 79 Republicans and 56 Democrats voted "Yea", while all 5 "Nay" votes were cast by Democrats. One Republican abstained, and nine members were absent (three Democrats, six Republicans)
. No Republican voted against the bill.
⚖️ U.S. Supreme Court — Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (June 27, 2025)
In a 6‑3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld HB 1181, ruling that Texas’ age‑verification requirement for websites with one-third or more sexual content harmful to minors was constitutional under intermediate scrutiny. Justice Clarence Thomas (conservative) wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Alito, Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch. They concluded that the law places only an “incidental” burden on adult speech and is narrowly tailored to protect minors, an interest states are permitted to pursue
The dissent was authored by Justice Elena Kagan (liberal), joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. They argued the law should have triggered strict scrutiny, not intermediate, asserting that it overly restricts adults’ access to constitutionally protected speech and imposes significant privacy risks
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