A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law mandating that pornography websites verify that their users are adults, with age verification software, however it struck down a part of the law requiring them to display health warnings about their content.

The 2-1 decision from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Thursday 7th March overturned a lower court ruling blocking the law, which had been challenged in court by pornography producers.

Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, writing for the majority on Thursday, said online age verification was equivalent to requiring in-person age verification to buy pornographic magazines, which has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Treating it differently “implies that the invention of the Internet somehow reduced the scope of the state’s ability to protect children,” he wrote.

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