This is what happens when you elect morons to legislate technology they dont understand.
More ways to control our lives and track our movements.
“Party of small government”.
Personally, I would stop using any site that did this. We all know nothing matters in this country but money. Companies stop making as much, they’ll get legislation changed.
if they are so concerned about children, how about doing something about the mormon church and the fucking horrible crimes that are committed against women and children in it?
But spoofing a phone number and harassing me all day isn’t worth solutioning. This Gov. is not representing us.
If I were a lawyer arguing against the law in court, my primary argument would be that this violates the interstate commerce section of the US Constitution.
looks at the scotus playbook
yeah that falls in between ‘nuhh uh’ and ‘don’t care’.
only problem is, it’s gonna get upheld 6-3
Land of the free etc
It seems like it’s just a matter of time until the US has it’s own red firewall.
Maybe we should just start blocking Utah like folks block North Korea. Utahans clearly want only Facebook and MySpace, and it’s rude of us to second-guess.
Have they thought about passing a law that checks to see if the people making the law have an IQ above 50?
This is the dumbest, most waste of time bullshit particularly when the rest of the country is imploding. Maybe they should focus on things that matter.
So how do they plan on figuring out if any given user behind a VPN is in Utah?
Age and identity verification. Unfortunately selling user data is profitable, so I think this will become more common.
So let’s cripple websites that have VPN users… Lmao. Dumbest fucking government ever.
Well while your isp can’t see what you do when you use a vpn. They can see you use a vpn.
So there is that. However you could use an isp that is not in utah
That works from the ISP end, but this legislation makes websites themselves accountable. Even if it was about ISPs, as you said they can’t see what you’re doing to stop it and there’s too many use cases for VPNs to just block the protocols outright.
They can see you use a vpn.
How? Deep package inspection?
There are known IP ranges for some VPN services. Plus even if they don’t have that, they can see that all your traffic is going to one IP address and can guess/assume it’s a VPN.
they can see that all your traffic is going to one IP address and can guess/assume it’s a VPN
Umm… What?
Like with phone carriers, ISPs can see the numbers (IPs) you are connecting to. If you use a VPN, you’re always connecting to the same IP, which is unusual from a regular user perspective and would tend to indicate VPN usage.
We can just add a few thousand tor nodes too. Not sure how they will ever enforce this.
Russia’s VPN crackdown disrupts banks, marketplaces and government services
And so if I’m in Utah as a traveller I can’t check my local news by vpn? Ok
This from the people who elected a notorious pedophile, “thinking” that he would find the real pedophiles.
I remember the days before corporations started to see the internet as a sales and advertising platform and governments allowed it to grow organically. It was honestly great. I miss those days
Every website would be better served to come up with a way to block all IP ranges that come out of Utah ISPs. Better to just block the whole state than try to play this game.
lol Mormons have the NSA servers in Utah.
