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

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  1. forshaper · · focus · HN ↗
    Can someone explain why it wouldn't work to have porn companies use only certain domains, and filter based on those domains, if people are so intent on blocking it?
    1. bell-cot · · focus · HN ↗
      What's the enforcement mechanism if some porn company in Elbonia "forgets" and uses hothothot.el, instead of hothothot.porn?
      1. kstrauser · · focus · HN ↗
        Here my genius self sits, momentarily wondering what M-x hothothot does in Emacs.
        1. rcfox · · focus · HN ↗
          <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1172&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1172&#x2F;
      2. thaumasiotes · · focus · HN ↗
        A Utah state organ sues them in Utah court, obviously.
      3. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
        also the whole point of having .el is to be outside US jurisdiction so the US can&#x27;t mess with their domains except for cutting off the whole country (which would splinter the internet).
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