{ "batch": "857-vermont-platform-restrictions-by-state", "articles": [ { "id": "learn_r857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_anchor_13_063", "category": "Safety", "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Vermont Statutes Online: Title 13 chapter 063 heading (anchor)", "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Vermont General Assembly's official Vermont Statutes Online publishes 13 V.S.A. chapter 63 under the heading quoted. The Vermont obscenity chapter is framed around minors; no state statute bars adult creators.", "body": "The Vermont General Assembly's official Vermont Statutes Online publishes 13 V.S.A. chapter 63 under the heading quoted. The Vermont obscenity chapter is framed around minors; no state statute bars adult creators.\n\nWhat Vermont General Assembly (Vermont Statutes Online) actually says:\n\n“Title 13 : Crimes and Criminal Procedure Chapter 063 : Obscenity”\n\nNote: Anchor record: the legislature's own statute site, legislature.vermont.gov (state domain).", "source_type": "official", "source_link": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/13/063", "last_verified": "2026-10-19", "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE", "source_tier": "A", "source_publisher": "Vermont General Assembly (Vermont Statutes Online)", "evidence_quote": "Title 13 : Crimes and Criminal Procedure Chapter 063 : Obscenity", "volatility": "low", "from_batch": "857-vermont-platform-restrictions-by-state", "subject": "Vermont Statutes Online", "topic": "Title 13 chapter 063 heading (anchor)", "applies_to_country": "US", "applies_to_scope": "VT", "tags": { "lane": "any", "stage": "setting_up", "region": [ "us-vt" ], "platform": "any", "topic": [ "unclassified" ], "explicitness": "any" }, "verification": { "status": "unverified", "label": "Unverified - being checked", "reasons": [ "legal_fetch_over_cap" ], "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z" } }, { "id": "learn_r857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_ob_2802a", "category": "Safety", "title": "[Unverified - being checked] 13 V.S.A. § 2802a: Disseminating indecent material to a minor outside the presence of the minor", "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] 13 V.S.A. 2802a(a): no person may, with knowledge of its character and content and with actual knowledge that the recipient is a minor, sell, lend, distribute or give away an image that depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse and is harmful to minors, including one communicated, transmitted or stored electronically.", "body": "13 V.S.A. 2802a(a): no person may, with knowledge of its character and content and with actual knowledge that the recipient is a minor, sell, lend, distribute or give away an image that depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse and is harmful to minors, including one communicated, transmitted or stored electronically.\n\nWhat Vermont General Assembly (Vermont Statutes Online) actually says:\n\n“No person may, with knowledge of its character and content, and with actual knowledge that the recipient is a minor, sell, lend, distribute, or give away: (1) any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, or similar visual representation or image, including any such representation or image which is communicated, transmitted, or stored electronically,”\n\nNote: The offence requires actual knowledge that the recipient is a minor; it does not prohibit sale to adults.", "source_type": "official", "source_link": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/13/063/02802a", "last_verified": "2026-10-19", "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE", "source_tier": "A", "source_publisher": "Vermont General Assembly (Vermont Statutes Online)", "evidence_quote": "No person may, with knowledge of its character and content, and with actual knowledge that the recipient is a minor, sell, lend, distribute, or give away: (1) any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, or similar visual representation or image, including any such representation or image which is communicated, transmitted, or stored electronically,", "volatility": "low", "from_batch": "857-vermont-platform-restrictions-by-state", "subject": "13 V.S.A. § 2802a", "topic": "Disseminating indecent material to a minor outside the presence of the minor", "applies_to_country": "US", "applies_to_scope": "VT", "tags": { "lane": "any", "stage": "setting_up", "region": [ "us-vt" ], "platform": "any", "topic": [ "unclassified" ], "explicitness": "any" }, "verification": { "status": "unverified", "label": "Unverified - being checked", "reasons": [ "legal_fetch_over_cap" ], "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z" } }, { "id": "learn_r857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_no_porn_av", "category": "Safety", "title": "[Unverified - being checked] No Vermont statute requires age verification for adult websites", "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] No section of the 9 V.S.A. chapter 62 index or of 13 V.S.A. chapter 63 imposes a duty to verify visitors' ages on sites publishing sexual content; Vermont's obscenity chapter reaches distribution only where the sender has actual knowledge that the recipient is a minor (13 V.S.A. 2802a).", "body": "No section of the 9 V.S.A. chapter 62 index or of 13 V.S.A. chapter 63 imposes a duty to verify visitors' ages on sites publishing sexual content; Vermont's obscenity chapter reaches distribution only where the sender has actual knowledge that the recipient is a minor (13 V.S.A. 2802a).\n\nWhat Vermont General Assembly (Vermont Statutes Online) actually says:\n\n“Title 13 : Crimes and Criminal Procedure Chapter 063 : Obscenity”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from an index/listing or page that does not mention it, not from operative text). Read the 9 V.S.A. chapter 62 index and the 13 V.S.A. chapter 63 text on 2026-10-19; searched the Title 9 and Title 13 chapter indexes for 'age verification' headings. Searched only those titles; pending bills (for example a social media age-verification bill) were not read from the legislature site and are not statutes.", "source_type": "official", "source_link": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/13/063", "last_verified": "2026-10-19", "reliability": "CREATOR STRATEGY", "source_tier": "A", "source_publisher": "Vermont General Assembly (Vermont Statutes Online)", "evidence_quote": "Title 13 : Crimes and Criminal Procedure Chapter 063 : Obscenity", "volatility": "medium", "from_batch": "857-vermont-platform-restrictions-by-state", "subject": "Vermont adult-site age-verification statute", "topic": "No Vermont statute requires age verification for adult websites", "applies_to_country": "US", "applies_to_scope": "VT", "tags": { "lane": "any", "stage": "setting_up", "region": [ "us-vt" ], "platform": "any", "topic": [ "unclassified" ], "explicitness": "any" }, "verification": { "status": "unverified", "label": "Unverified - being checked", "reasons": [ "legal_fetch_over_cap" ], "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z" } }, { "id": "learn_r857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_no_state_basis", "category": "Safety", "title": "[Unverified - being checked] No Vermont statute found that a platform could cite to exclude Vermont creators or users", "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] No section of the Vermont statutes read requires age verification of adult-site visitors, restricts creator payouts, or bars adult creators; the only statute on distribution to minors is 13 V.S.A. 2802a (up to one year or $1,000 under 2807), and the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act is effective January 1, 2027.", "body": "No section of the Vermont statutes read requires age verification of adult-site visitors, restricts creator payouts, or bars adult creators; the only statute on distribution to minors is 13 V.S.A. 2802a (up to one year or $1,000 under 2807), and the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act is effective January 1, 2027.\n\nWhat Vermont General Assembly (Vermont Statutes Online) actually says:\n\n“Title 13 : Crimes and Criminal Procedure Chapter 063 : Obscenity”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from an index/listing or page that does not mention it, not from operative text). Absence inferred from the Title 13 and Title 9 chapter indexes and chapters 59, 63, 64, 60 and 62 read for the sibling returns on 2026-10-19. Platform pages themselves were not opened.", "source_type": "official", "source_link": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/13/063", "last_verified": "2026-10-19", "reliability": "CREATOR STRATEGY", "source_tier": "A", "source_publisher": "Vermont General Assembly (Vermont Statutes Online)", "evidence_quote": "Title 13 : Crimes and Criminal Procedure Chapter 063 : Obscenity", "volatility": "medium", "from_batch": "857-vermont-platform-restrictions-by-state", "subject": "Vermont statutes read", "topic": "No Vermont statute found that a platform could cite to exclude Vermont creators or users", "applies_to_country": "US", "applies_to_scope": "VT", "tags": { "lane": "any", "stage": "setting_up", "region": [ "us-vt" ], "platform": "any", "topic": [ "unclassified" ], "explicitness": "any" }, "verification": { "status": "unverified", "label": "Unverified - being checked", "reasons": [ "legal_fetch_over_cap" ], "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z" } }, { "id": "learn_r857_vermont_platform_restrictions_by_state_anchor_vermont_statutes_index", "category": "Safety", "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Vermont: statutes index", "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Vermont's official statutes are published by the Vermont General Assembly at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/, with the index page headed \"Vermont Laws\" / \"The Vermont Statutes Online\" listing Title 1 through Title 33 plus appendices.", "body": "Vermont's official statutes are published by the Vermont General Assembly at legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/, with the index page headed \"Vermont Laws\" / \"The Vermont Statutes Online\" listing Title 1 through Title 33 plus appendices.\n\nWhat Vermont General Assembly actually says:\n\n“Vermont Laws”\n\nNote: Anchor record for batch 857. Index page lists Title 1 through Title 33 plus appendices (13, 14A, 15A, 15B, 15C, 16 Appendix, 24 Appendix, 27A). The page heading \"Vermont Laws\" and subheading \"The Vermont Statutes Online\" are verbatim evidence.", "source_type": "official", "source_link": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/", "last_verified": "2026-10-21", "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE", "source_tier": "A", "source_publisher": "Vermont General Assembly", "evidence_quote": "Vermont Laws", "volatility": "low", "from_batch": "857-vermont-platform-restrictions-by-state", "subject": "Vermont", "topic": "statutes index", "applies_to_country": "*", "tags": { "lane": "any", "stage": "choosing", "region": [ "us-vt" ], "platform": "any", "topic": [ "safety.legal" ], "explicitness": "any" }, "verification": { "status": "failed", "label": "Unverified - being checked", "reasons": [ "placeholder_quote_too_short", "strong_label_on_weak_content" ], "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z" } } ] }