According to the Unites States Court of Appeals, the websites that provide or sell porn content don’t have to conform to the law imposing the age record keeping.



The Unites States Court of Appeals considers this unconstitutional.
The excuse of the Unites States Court of Appeals’ decision was, of course, the free speech right, mentioned in the text of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

These were the words used by the Court:

“the purpose and the legislative history of the statute make clear that Congress was concerned with all child pornography and considered record keeping important in battling all of it, without respect to the creator’s motivation”.

Until now, all porn websites located in the United States, that offered videochat entertainment, had to keep records proving that all models have the legal age, meaning at least 21.
This was supposed to ruin websites like YouPorn or PornoTube, which are based on user generated content.

My question: Would you put in the same balance the website “creator’s motivation” and the child pornography?