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Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

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calvinmorrison · 1790963995 · focus · HN ↗
In 1897 Indiana almost passed a law defining Pi as 3.2. These jurists have never cared about reality.
1. ceroxylon · 1790965127 · focus · HN ↗
  Wow, that is a wild read, thank you: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
2. mahboi · 1790968462 · focus · HN ↗
  They seem to know what they're doing here. A website can comply as long as they perfectly geofence (impossible) or do "reasonable" age verification. "Reasonable" only for the latter. So they basically want these sites in any US state to do age verification.
3. stonogo · 1790970479 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm not sure your claim is backed up by the evidence you've provided (to wit, that Indiana did not pass the bill).
4. altmanaltman · 1791020986 · focus · HN ↗
  > Section 47. No person having one-eighth part or more of negro blood shall be permitted to marry any white woman of this State, nor shall any white man be permitted to marry any negro woman, or any woman having one-eighth part or-more of negro blood, and every person who shall knowingly marry in violation of the provisions of this section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the State’s prison not less than one, nor more than ten years, and be fined not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars.
  <a href="https://www.pastpaperhero.com/resources/state-v-gibson-36-ind-389-ind-1871" rel="nofollow">https://www.pastpaperhero.com/resources/state-v-gibson-36-in...
  This law did not "almost pass" but actually passed and remained in force till 1967.
  You think they wouldn't try to fuck with pi?

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