The court said a Texas law requiring certain websites hosting sexual content to verify their viewers’ ages is constitutional.

The ruling is the first time that the court has imposed requirements on adult consumers in order to protect minors from having access to sexually explicit material.

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring porn websites to verify the age of users, similar to statutes passed in Utah and two dozen other states across the country since 2023. In a majority opinion joined by the court’s other conservatives,