Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘John Marshall has made his decision’ regarding relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States, US president Andrew Jackson supposedly said of the US Supreme Court’s chief justice in 1832. ‘Now let him enforce it!’That sentiment comes to mind when considering the Supreme Court’s June 27 decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. The court ruled that the government of Texas doesn’t run afoul of the First Amendment by requiring websites to verify users’ ages if those sites serve content the regime deems ‘harmful to minors.’ … I’m a big fan of VPNs and other tools for circumventing government control of what we can access on the World Wide Web. I’m also old enough to remember the US government’s war on encryption in the 1990s. Short version for you youngsters: The government lost that war. Paxton and his co-belligerents will lose this one, too.” (06/29/25)