• LadyMeow
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    2 months ago

    Lmao. Fascist shithole becomes more fascist shithole. We are becoming the nation that propaganda told us china and Russia are not so long ago.

  • Havatra@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    I don’t get how this kind of law goes all the way into law. Yes, there are many tech illiterate old people making laws, and yes there are a lot of powerful tech billionaires lobbying, but still, are there really no roadblocks for them?

    This law is unenforceable, and it’s going to be abused by authorities.

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    2 months ago

    Someone needs to sue every State/County/City of Utah website for not correctly detecting if a user is on a VPN.

    Those building codes and property tax records are too sexy for minors.

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      2 months ago

      By “beat down” you mean that they’ll just drop the charges after putting somone in a cage and torturing them for months or years?

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    2 months ago

    Not web sites. Service providers. They mean ISPs. They aren’t holding pornhub liable if you use a VPN and are located in Utah.

    The law is also technically flawed, given that it assumes that a web provider can reliably detect VPN traffic and determine a user’s true physical location — they can’t. IP reputation databases such as MaxMind and IP2Proxy can flag traffic from known datacenter IP ranges, but commercial VPN providers rotate addresses constantly, and residential VPN endpoints are largely indistinguishable from standard home connections. Autonomous System Number analysis can catch traffic originating from datacenter networks, but can’t identify a personal WireGuard tunnel running on a cloud VPS, for example, which routes through the same infrastructure as ordinary web hosting.