Technology

This is what happens when you elect morons to legislate technology they dont understand.

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.

Land of the free etc

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

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?

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.

But spoofing a phone number and harassing me all day isn't worth solutioning. This Gov. is not representing us.

I would bet my shoes Facebook or someone lobbied for this.

It’s easy to blame Mormons, but I think that bloc was more of a mark.

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.

It seems like it's just a matter of time until the US has it's own red firewall.

I find it so interesting that they will dance all the way around VPN's, yet do nothing to make them actually illegal.

Web services and websites should block all Utah IP addresses and redirect to page explaining that because they cannot tell who's using a VPN, their only option is to block all of Utah.

Yes, I understand how dumb that is, but sometimes you have to fight stupid with stupider.

The stupidity of these lawmakers is beyond wild. How the fuck is this real?

I have a similar idea, let's prosecute the police when they fail to catch criminals and punish them instead. A killer got away? Death penalty for the police officer in charge. That will make the killers think twice!

Or even better, let's prosecute politicians when their laws backfire and do more damage than good.

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.

All adult businesses moving out of Utah. A lot of other businesses too.

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.

So how do they plan on figuring out if any given user behind a VPN is in Utah?

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

How is this enforceable?

These aren't "age checks"...it's identity tracking.

I'm so weary of everything getting a little bit worse every day.

I'm sure we all used to be excited about the future of the internet but now it's just shit.

Remember when we told people "they'll make it illegal to use a VPN" and we got snarky replies like "it's not enforceable LOL".

The fuck it isn't. Traffic coming from a VPN? That's a paddlin', kiddo.

They're not even trying to masquerade it as… oh, yes, they're still trying to masquerade as a "think of the children!" measure. Those fuckers.

Revenge of the Mormons.

lol Mormons have the NSA servers in Utah.

To date, the only countries that have made progress in blocking VPN traffic with some success are authoritarian regimes with ISP-level surveillance.

You know you're on to something when the only playbook you can find was written by the Chinese government.

The acceleration of the popularization of darknets continues, it's going to be a tough decade, but at the end of it, we'll all be more private and secure. Learn about Tor, I2P, and anonymous internet alternatives!

This from the people who elected a notorious pedophile, "thinking" that he would find the real pedophiles.

Get a list of every dumbass politician who voted this through, and access their campaign websites through a VPN from a computer in Utah. Boom.

Self owned.

Age verification is a red line. I will not comply

Wait a second... how can they enforce this legislation when a VPN is masking the user's location? How do they know a user using a VPN is from Utah?

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but aren't the users they're trying to regulate the exact subsection of users that they don't have the ability to identify as being citizens of Utah?

Like if a user appears to be in Utah, then they're probably not using a vpn. And if the user appears to be from out of state, then they could be using a vpn, but also Utah law doesn't apply to those people because they're not from Utah (as far as they know)... So essentially this law can't actually apply to... anyone?

The pedophile class has the audacity to dictate access to a utility under the guise of protecting the children