COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio lawmakers are wrestling over how to keep kids from seeing what they shouldn’t online.

Courts have already put on hold an age verification system written into the 2023 budget. A hastily written provision tucked into this year’s budget was meant to keep kids from visiting porn websites. But as drafted, several large players contend the restrictions don’t apply to them.

And in an Ohio Senate committee hearing this week, lawmakers heard from supporters of two more age verification proposals . One has the backing of the tech giants who run app stores. The other has the support of child safety advocates, as well as different tech giants whose apps appear in those app stores.

Meanwhile the fight is extending beyond Columbus. In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth

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