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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. bigbuppo · · focus · HN ↗
            It's lawfare against Constitutionally-protected speech. The "for the children" bit is just an appeal to emotion.

            /Same as it ever was

            1. ButlerianJihad · · focus · HN ↗
              Follow the money. The real “speech” is the revenue, and the spend from the patrons of porn.

              Sure, hungry working girl needs your $5 tip. Now she can have a Famous Star with fries. Story over. No, wait.

              Porn money rapidly becomes dark money. Who takes cuts? It goes offshore. It goes to pimps, gangsters, gun runners? Who knows? You don’t care!

              Are you opposed to human trafficking and slavery? No you’re not! That spicy OF that you like is part of your problem!

              Perhaps Utah and other people with morals are worried about the compromise of their men and the patrons of porn. You can drain a lot of information, and money, and desperate action, from porn addicts. So if there is a statewide financial drain, a trade deficit, if you will, perhaps it is in Utah’s best interest to keep dirty money where they can see it, and prevent their men from falling victim to the whore who sits upon many waters.

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