Technology

I would bet my shoes Facebook or someone lobbied for this.

It’s easy to blame Mormons, but I think that bloc was more of a mark.

Land of the free etc

if they are so concerned about children, how about doing something about the mormon church and the fucking horrible crimes that are committed against women and children in it?

The Mormon Government of Putin representatives working for your freedom. The UTah Oblast is becoming a miniature version of CCP run China.

More ways to control our lives and track our movements.

"Party of small government".

Personally, I would stop using any site that did this. We all know nothing matters in this country but money. Companies stop making as much, they'll get legislation changed.

But spoofing a phone number and harassing me all day isn't worth solutioning. This Gov. is not representing us.

It seems like it's just a matter of time until the US has it's own red firewall.

Every website would be better served to come up with a way to block all IP ranges that come out of Utah ISPs. Better to just block the whole state than try to play this game.

Have they thought about passing a law that checks to see if the people making the law have an IQ above 50?

This is the dumbest, most waste of time bullshit particularly when the rest of the country is imploding. Maybe they should focus on things that matter.

If I were a lawyer arguing against the law in court, my primary argument would be that this violates the interstate commerce section of the US Constitution.

The acceleration of the popularization of darknets continues, it's going to be a tough decade, but at the end of it, we'll all be more private and secure. Learn about Tor, I2P, and anonymous internet alternatives!

Revenge of the Mormons.

So how do they plan on figuring out if any given user behind a VPN is in Utah?

Wait, how long until literally any software business realizes what this is, and hard lobbies against it?

You basically must conduct all your business unencrypted in the state of Utah if this is to be understood.

The stupidity of these lawmakers is beyond wild. How the fuck is this real?

I have a similar idea, let's prosecute the police when they fail to catch criminals and punish them instead. A killer got away? Death penalty for the police officer in charge. That will make the killers think twice!

Or even better, let's prosecute politicians when their laws backfire and do more damage than good.

Russia's VPN crackdown disrupts banks, marketplaces and government services

And so if I'm in Utah as a traveller I can't check my local news by vpn? Ok

Can we just trade Utah to, I dunno, Mexico for three bucks and a half eaten burrito?

lol Mormons have the NSA servers in Utah.

From my point of view, all I want is that Europe doesn't follow the US into suiciding it's own future in Tech by structurally dismounting the workings of the Internet for the purpose of autoritarian surveillance.

Mind you, given the seeming high amounts of corruption and kompromat for European politicians - especially EU ones - I fear that even here they might send us down the path of Technological Black Age to satisfy whatever large American Tech Companies that pay them or populist American or Israeli politicians holding kompromat on them.