> It also prohibits covered websites from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass age checks.
This country is led by idiots that do not enjoy or like freedom.
Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
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#13Here's the website of Utah's governor if you want to access it via a VPN: https://www.votecox.com/
https://www.votecox.com/fighting-federal-overreach
> Fighting Federal Overreach
"The US govt can't overreach! That's my job!"
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#14This is the stupidest idea I’ve heard recently. Way to go, Utah.
My home router has a built in VPN server. When I’m out running around, my iPhone can route traffic through my house. Pray tell, o sage Utah legislature chucklefucks, how is anyone expected to tell that I’m accessing a website from a hotel in Berlin instead of my house in California? (Which is why we used it last time: I configured my travel router to use that same VPN so we could watch American Netflix at night before bedtime when we just wanted something familiar to relax with.)
Honestly, this is the new “pi equals 3” legislation. “Let’s make laws codifying technical ideas we clearly have no freaking clue about”.
Again, way to go, Utah.
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#15What a coincidence that Utah is following the same pattern as Australia, the European Union, Norway and the UK, while pretending they came up with it independently.
I wonder who's in common there?
They obviously get the ideas from the same sources. Somewhere they don't invite ordinary people to like Davos or other conferences.
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#16I am completely baffled by this wave of new laws and proposals... they feel dystopic and can seemingly only lead to brutal restrictions on the internet. What will we end up with? Only attested modems / endpoints in the home? With DPI? And a government issued smartcard to use it? It comes across as if this is what some legislators are actually after... they must have some technical advisors who can explain to them that the solutions they propose will not work and I am a bit worried they will morph the public discussion into enforcing at a lower level otherwise "the bad guys still circumvent"??
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#18is this even doable/enforceble?
Not even remotely.
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#19is this even doable/enforceble?
no, they're inventing make-believe crimes they can accuse anyone they don't like of
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#20People need to do their best to stop paying so much in taxes to their state governments, failing which the governments get increasingly authoritarian. The state governments clearly have run out of real problems to solve, and when they do, they then attack basic freedoms. Keeping them strongly tax-constrained keeps them lean. As it stands, these governments are representing special interests, not the people. It doesn'…
You're saying that like we have a choice. If we don't pay taxes we get jailed. Simple as that.
Stop paying so much is not the same as not paying. Why are you making it otherwise?