PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
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PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
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Re: PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
#2Presumably they are using some form of IP address geolocation. If that's as inaccurate in the USA as it is in Australia, they're going to have problems - a lot of the time it puts me in the wrong State.
Re: PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
#3Related, from 11 hours ago, 27 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35781637
Re: PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
#4Presumably they are using some form of IP address geolocation. If that's as inaccurate in the USA as it is in Australia, they're going to have problems - a lot of the time it puts me in the wrong State.
Mobile phones cannot be reliably geo-located by IP as that depends on the datacenter serving them, which can easily be out of state. Usually the only half reliable part is the country which doesn't work in Europe when it comes to roaming (it uses the host country regardless the location).
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#6In other news, VPN subscription sales explode in Utah!
easy sales opportunity
Re: PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
#7Presumably they are using some form of IP address geolocation. If that's as inaccurate in the USA as it is in Australia, they're going to have problems - a lot of the time it puts me in the wrong State.
That's probably fine. Perhaps the point is to make it more clear to lawmakers that you can't build a Great Salt Lake Firewall.
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#8In other news, VPN subscription sales explode in Utah! easy sales opportunity
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Re: PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
#9Presumably they are using some form of IP address geolocation. If that's as inaccurate in the USA as it is in Australia, they're going to have problems - a lot of the time it puts me in the wrong State.
That's probably fine. Perhaps the point is to make it more clear to lawmakers that you can't build a Great Salt Lake Firewall.
Sure you could, you could mandate providers in the state give accurate geolocation data with some sort of lookup service and standard. I'm not saying it's a good idea but providers could certainly do it. They provide the physical infrastructure, and I assume have to deal with understanding state boundaries, laws, taxes etc already on a per customer basis when it comes to near state border cases.
I guess people providing wifi near the border could get complex but you could pass that responsibility to whomever owns the physical line and where it terminates. Satellite might be a little difficult.
But I'm not entirely sure we should do it just because it could be done.
Re: PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
#10In other news, VPN subscription sales explode in Utah! easy sales opportunity
What’s weird is, from my reading of the law in question, a minor using either a VPN or a stolen ID card to access PornHub is a violation. . . for PornHub.
That seems a little wonky to me.