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

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  1. irenaeus · · focus · HN ↗
    Not sure what the impossibility is. VPN's have a set of exit relays. If traffic is coming from one of those exit relays, it's coming from a VPN, so adult websites can be required to block traffic from those exit relays. What am I missing?
    1. Aurornis · · focus · HN ↗
      The law requires blocking all VPN access.

      It's impossible to have perfect knowledge of the entire set of VPN exit node addresses.

      1. nikanj · · focus · HN ↗
        Sounds like a problem for those pesky, nasty porn websites, not a problem for the good christian lawmakers..
        1. logicchains · · focus · HN ↗

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          1. neilo40 · · focus · HN ↗
            Mormonism is a branch of Christianity
            1. gopher_space · · focus · HN ↗
              We've agreed to not discuss this.

              You need to understand that my branch considers Catholicism to be a pagan shame and the Mormons an actual sex cult. We just don't talk about our differences anymore because it always ended in death.

              1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
                The difference is, there are a reasonable number of churches that recognize Catholic or Presbyterian as Christian, even if it's not all of them. Only LDS consider LDS to be Christian.
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