"You can use VPNs, the click of a button, to make it seem like you're not in Texas," Shaffer argued. "You can go through the search engines, you can go through social media, you can access the same content in the ways that kids are likeliest to do."
Texas attorney Aaron Nielson argued that the problem of kids accessing porn online has only gotten "worse" in the decades since Texas has been attempting less restrictive and allegedly less effective means like content filtering. He asserts, "So it seems not correct to me as a historical matter to say, well actually it's always been presumptively unconstitutional… But we've done it forever. Strict scrutiny somehow has always been satisfied."
Shaffer told SCOTUS that out of "about 20 other laws that by some views may look a lot like Texas' law, this is the worst of them." He criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, describing him as a "hostile regulator who's saying to adults, you should not be here."
In a press release, Vera Eidelman, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, emphasized that "efforts to impose age verification laws risk creating unnecessary barriers to free expression and could ultimately do more harm than good."
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