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LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

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

www.tomshardware.com

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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

www.tomshardware.com

LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Senate Bill 73 holds websites liable for users who mask their location.
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    Remember when we told people “they’ll make it illegal to use a VPN” and we got snarky replies like “it’s not enforceable LOL”.

    The fuck it isn’t. Traffic coming from a VPN? That’s a paddlin’, kiddo.

    They’re not even trying to masquerade it as… oh, yes, they’re still trying to masquerade as a “think of the children!” measure. Those fuckers.

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      and we got snarky replies like “it’s not enforceable LOL”.

      Not being enforceable hasn’t stopped a lot of bad laws from being enacted.

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        My housing complex has a 10km/hr speed limit, it is completely unenforceable (police aren’t going to put in a speed trap or monitor a road inside a housing complex). Doesn’t stop people getting all upset because they’re sure someone was going 15.

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      https://ur.io/

      People can use this to look like local traffic.

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        looks sketchy af

        agentic browser ew

        corporate ew

        real trustworthy privacy/security/anonymization/decentralization software is libre, open source, non-corporate, an unpaid not-for-profit free-time project that never makes use of any money, decentralized with no official host, and most importantly made by trans anarchist catgirls who use obscure operating systems

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        This seems a bit sketchy to me. How am I getting paid for participating when it’s completely free?

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          https://docs.ur.io/economic-model/economic-model

          Their economic model comes from premium subscriptions. Its free to use with a data cap.

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            So what legally protects a provider from prison if users view illegal content via my network?

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              Reminds me of the guy who got his home raided and electronics seized for running a Tor exit node.

              https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operating-tor-exit-node/

              Seems risky and a huge legal hassle even if you don’t end up in prison.

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                Exactly why the for project recommends doing exactly not that.

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        The problem for most users is: they actually want to look like traffic from somewhere else…

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          I meant to say residential traffic of whatever country they connect to instead of a data center.

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        it seems very unsafe

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          https://github.com/urnetwork

          Their software is open source.

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            that doesn’t mean it’s safe though

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