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Age check laws are a 'back door' to banning porn, Project 2025 architect says in hidden camera video

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A hidden-camera video released last week shows a conservative operative talking about age verification laws.

Russell Vought is the founder of the Center for Renewing America , a right-wing think tank whose "mission is to renew a consensus of America as a nation under God" Vought served as policy director for the Republican National Committee's platform rewrite this year .

He's best known as one of the architects of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 , a document outlining what it wants to put on the agenda of a second Trump administration.

Project 2025 says porn is "manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology" The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of the tech-industry association NetChoice in a case concerning California 's Age Appropriate Design Code.

Another critical review of Jonathan Height's The Anxious Generation is published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly .