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

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  1. SoftTalker · · focus · HN ↗
    > platforms are left with an impossible choice: completely block all VPN traffic nationwide or withdraw access from Utah entirely

    Is it even possible to reliably know that a connection is from a VPN? Anyone can proxy through a random hosting provider.

    1. happyPersonR · · focus · HN ↗
      Requires the vpn provider to snitch and possible tag the ip frames or http frames lol

      Folks would just host their own vpns various places and this would be pointless ….

      1. unglaublich · · focus · HN ↗
        It's all just an effort to control the 90%.
        1. pkilgore · · focus · HN ↗
          It lawfare against porn. They don't want these companies to exist. They want it to be impossible to comply with the law to shut them down.
          1. miohtama · · focus · HN ↗
            The UK is doing it.

            Ofcom is investigating PornHub even after PornHub installed age checks as Ofcom claims age checks not “robust” (read: VPN ban). So hand over your id to see porn.

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;moo9000&#x2F;status&#x2F;2102726344975040565?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;moo9000&#x2F;status&#x2F;2102726344975040565?s=20

            1. EmbarrassedHelp · · focus · HN ↗
              The UK government is extremely socially conservative when it comes to sex&#x2F;porn online, and they never let an opportunity to violate privacy rights go to waste.

              The rest of the world would be better off to just block the UK from online platforms rather than risky complying with their increasingly insane demands.

              1. miohtama · · focus · HN ↗
                Blocking does not work either. Ofcom is drunk with their own juice under the current Labour government.

                Ofcom fines you even if you block the UK because it is not &quot;robust&quot;

                <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ukpolitics&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1osgyg4&#x2F;the_ofcom_files_part_2_ip_blocking_the_uk_is_not&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ukpolitics&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1osgyg4&#x2F;the_ofc...

                1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
                  Then we should treat it like Afghanistan or North Korea, which do the same thing: ignore the ridiculous shit they say, and don&#x27;t go visit.
            2. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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