Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks
1d 11h ago by lemmy.world/u/MicroWave in news from www.tomshardware.com
Senate Bill 73 holds websites liable for users who mask their location.
“We need to ban VPNs! To protect the Children!”
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The effect of this law is to make Utah law apply everywhere. Other states should play similar games. Require an age check to view Mormon content, make websites liable for serving Mormon content to underage users even through a VPN.
This has been posted a lot. GOOD LUCK.
Another law passed by those who are clueless about what they're doing!
People seem worried that this will be applied to everyone. In reality what's going to happen is websites will just block Utah.
This has been proven with the age requirements in quite a few places.
The pornhub treatment.
The new law basically says "We don't care where the user appears to be from, you have to assume they are from Utah". Blocking Utah doesn't help.
I guess the only way to do this is to only allow users from the location that has age checks. I think the governments really want to have an internet segregated by nation.
How is this even supposed to work?
Stop using those websites. If the business stops, someone will make a replacement.
Typo in the title: it should say, In an attempt to not be tracked by everybody and every company Is why they are using VPNs.