High Court Age-Check Ruling Could Have Wide Impact Beyond Porn

Ben Sperry June 30, 2025

Ben Sperry, ICLE’s Senior Scholar is quoted in the Bloomberg Law piece about the broader implications of the Supreme Court’s age verification ruling. Read the full article here.

But Ben Sperry, a senior scholar at the International Center for Law and Economics who focuses on civil liberties and government regulation, said the narrow ruling wasn’t the big win that proponents of age-verification laws were hoping for.

Sperry said the narrow ruling equalizes online access with physical access. And it isn’t and won’t likely to open the door to regulation of social-media sites, he said.