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Utah's VPN Law Is A Declaration Of Tech Illiteracy - SlashGear
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VPN blocking is already a thing. There are lots of websites that block VPN users, even if just to reduce spam or malicious traffic. It seems like tech or political illiteracy on the part of the article author. The goal of all these new laws is clearly to make surveillance of internet users easier and forcing websites to ban VPN users does exactly that. If enough US states pass a law like this, it will have a big enough economic effect to force companies to actually comply, and basically block all VPN users. And if it's too difficult to comply, then companies and governments will find ways to make it easier to comply.
It's just a US-style version of banning VPNs directly. They have to do it differently so all the hack journalists and libertarians and NGOs can keep using their stupid propaganda about how "authoritarian governments" want to "ban freedom of information" by blocking VPNs.