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“We need to ban VPNs! To protect the Children!”
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The effect of this law is to make Utah law apply everywhere. Other states should play similar games. Require an age check to view Mormon content, make websites liable for serving Mormon content to underage users even through a VPN.
Nah, that just serves the anti privacy groups that are funding these efforts. Instead make a law that everyone must use a VPN, and you are liable for not using one.
People seem worried that this will be applied to everyone. In reality what's going to happen is websites will just block Utah.
This has been proven with the age requirements in quite a few places.
The pornhub treatment.
Mormons Strike Back
The new law basically says "We don't care where the user appears to be from, you have to assume they are from Utah". Blocking Utah doesn't help.
Commerce clause?
This has been posted a lot. GOOD LUCK.
Another law passed by those who are clueless about what they're doing!
I guess the only way to do this is to only allow users from the location that has age checks. I think the governments really want to have an internet segregated by nation.
How is this even supposed to work?
Typo in the title: it should say, In an attempt to not be tracked by everybody and every company Is why they are using VPNs.
absolute bootlicker title
Stop using those websites. If the business stops, someone will make a replacement.
How does one use a vpn without their ISP seeing it in the traffic? I assume you’d encapsulate it in a tunnel that looks like https.
Yes. They're passing laws they don't understand. I'm surprised they didn't randomly toss in NFT, Bitcoin, and Blockchain as buzz words.
Depending on the VPN type it appears like a completely different type of traffic. GRE and ESP are different types of IP traffic (layer 3). WireGuard uses encrypted tunnels by encapsulating IP packets over UDP so it would be a little less obvious. There are VPNs that make all traffic look like SSL traffic but those are generally less secure. You could probably double up and create a separate encapsulated encrypted traffic stream inside the SSL but that’s a shit ton of overhead.
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