News Summary

• So far at least 24 US states have sanctioned some form of ID verification.
• Legislators argue that these laws are intended to keep minors safe from content deemed harmful to them.
• Critics say the laws infringe on privacy rights and set an irreversibly dark precedent for the future of free speech.
• Trump ally Russell Vought, who coauthored Project 2025, says age verification laws are the “back door’ route to a federal ban on pornography.
• “We’ve got a number of states that are passing this, and you know what happens,” Vought says.