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Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Irrelevant. The end goal is they can say "you connected to a site without going through our checkpoint, you're liable". Then the fun begins.

The teshnikully… discussions are useless against this. Heck, given how some networks operate, I would not be surprised if some people would fall into this without even knowing.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 4 points 3 days ago

Just wait for the "mandatory government issued World ID" required to access internet websites...