US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

I think your assumption that Texas cares about its porn industries is incorrect. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Afaik it's the #1 porn site, I could be wrong. I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. Registries of porn sites are readily available. (I use them in my hosts file blocking). So, my guess is that the likely step will be block all of them until they prove they have ID enforcement.

Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship, but in practice they want to build a Great Firewall of Texas.

> Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship

What they hate about Chinese internet censorship isn't the scope and pervasiveness, it’s who specifically controls it and what specific decisions are made.

I think all 3 of these things are valid concerns.

You do, but lawmakers generally don't.

> I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas.

I'm guessing you mean blocking their entire NS host. It would be a massive overreach and would block every site they're authoritative for.

It's one more thing on the rapidly growing Unconstitutional=Okay stack. Cherry-picked courts are routinely fine with that. But it wouldn't stop lawsuits from registrars, site owners and other parties harmed thru collateral damage.

Just blocking PH's current IP would take down over 40 sites.

ref: https://bgp.he.net/ip/66.254.114.41#_dnsrecords

> if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked

Actually they've already pre-emptively blocked themselves. If you try to access their site from anywhere in Texas, you get a wall of text urging you to call your congressman and oppose this law (or so I heard from a guy).