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

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SoftTalker · 1790960547 · 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. whatever1 · 1790999336 · focus · HN ↗
  The great firewall probes the host ip and if it suspects it is a vpn server (udp traffic etc) it just throttles to a halt the ip.
  Tons of false positives, but they are non-domestic IPs so who (dares to) cares.

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