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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)
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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 143 points 1 week ago (48 children)

How is this enforceable?

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seems like it’s the first step in transferring control of the internet to the government.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Step 1 to China/Russia/Iran level internet?

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

They tried in Russia and electronic payment terminals, that use a VPN, stopped working.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

The government? Whoever is the highest bidder for all the data being gathered. Probably Palantir, as ever.

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