LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoUtah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checkswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square119linkfedilinkarrow-up1590arrow-down113
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minus-squarecley_faye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·7 days agoRemember 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.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days ago 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.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoMy 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.
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·7 days agohttps://ur.io/ People can use this to look like local traffic.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoThe problem for most users is: they actually want to look like traffic from somewhere else…
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoI meant to say residential traffic of whatever country they connect to instead of a data center.
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.
Not being enforceable hasn’t stopped a lot of bad laws from being enacted.
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.
https://ur.io/
People can use this to look like local traffic.
The problem for most users is: they actually want to look like traffic from somewhere else…
I meant to say residential traffic of whatever country they connect to instead of a data center.