I mean, even if the website detected a vpn, they don't know it came from Utah...

They can't know it came from Utah, that's the whole point of a VPN.

The only way to actually block it, is for Utah to go after ISPs services in Utah. And try to force them to ban VPNs on their end.

Demanding every fucking website worldwide block vpns isn't gonna work. You'd have to be completely and totally ignorant of technology to think this could even work...

Lmao. Fascist shithole becomes more fascist shithole. We are becoming the nation that propaganda told us china and Russia are not so long ago.

I don't get how this kind of law goes all the way into law. Yes, there are many tech illiterate old people making laws, and yes there are a lot of powerful tech billionaires lobbying, but still, are there really no roadblocks for them?

This law is unenforceable, and it's going to be abused by authorities.

Someone needs to sue every State/County/City of Utah website for not correctly detecting if a user is on a VPN.

Those building codes and property tax records are too sexy for minors.

Sigh...

That'll get beat down the first time they try to enforce it.

Not web sites. Service providers. They mean ISPs. They aren't holding pornhub liable if you use a VPN and are located in Utah.

The law is also technically flawed, given that it assumes that a web provider can reliably detect VPN traffic and determine a user’s true physical location — they can’t. IP reputation databases such as MaxMind and IP2Proxy can flag traffic from known datacenter IP ranges, but commercial VPN providers rotate addresses constantly, and residential VPN endpoints are largely indistinguishable from standard home connections. Autonomous System Number analysis can catch traffic originating from datacenter networks, but can’t identify a personal WireGuard tunnel running on a cloud VPS, for example, which routes through the same infrastructure as ordinary web hosting.

when I think of Utah I think of pedophile Mormons and white women who put mayonnaise on their tacos.