And now the editor can relocate the shop as well.
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Utah’s VPN Ban Law Goes Into Effect in Age Verification Escalation
Utah is attempting to cover up the failures of their age verification law by effectively banning VPNs.
https://www.freezenet.ca/utahs-vpn-ban-law-goes-into-effect-in-age-verification-escalation/
#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #encryption #law #legislation #US #Utah #VPN
Editor can now relocate the exit.
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@vokainen099 I think Allsup was able to walk away without staging anything, but he was never anywhere near as infamous as Fuentes.
@Jet I'm only here because I hate Reddit, Discord, and mainstream social media and independent forums are mostly dead.
@vokainen099 That or the SPLC funds stopped arriving.
It's sad that someone needs to explain the concept of jurisdiction to Utah's legislators and the first amendment:
"Signed by Governor Spencer Cox on March 19, the controversial law establishes that a user is considered to be accessing a website from Utah if they are physically located there, regardless of whether they use a VPN or proxy to mask their IP address."
You can't dictate who must obey your law to those outside your jurisdiction where your law does not apply. This is of Europe which fails to understand this with the GDPR and apparently Utah with this new anti-VPN law. I get that there may be some sites that fall within the scope of Utah's jurisdiction, but it's doubtful many actually do.
Does this not sound to you like they are prohibiting speech explicitly protected by the first amendment? Sure does to me:
"It also prohibits covered websites from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass age checks."
I will also point out that similar laws in the 1990s were repeatedly struck down that restricted access to pornography online. Requiring identification is NOT constitutional.
In the 1990s, the Supreme Court struck down age-verification requirements for online content in Reno v. ACLU (1997), ruling that they violated the First Amendment by imposing an undue burden on adults' access to legally protected speech. The case challenged the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which criminalized transmitting "indecent" or "patently offensive" material to minors online and allowed a defense based on using age verification like credit card checks.
We are incredibly proud to grow our Digital Independence Day internationally:
The website https://di.day is now available in english thanks to @edri.
So please spread the word and help us grow this movement!
First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.
Yesterday, one of the younger electricians was telling me about the beauty of the new alarm systems he installs. While acknowledging the quality of my current one, he said, "It uses a SIM card and calls you. The new ones are 4G or Wi-Fi and use the cloud, so notifications go straight to your smartphone, it's not calling anymore."
I asked him, "And what if the cloud stops working? Why should I have to depend on the company’s cloud to receive alerts from my alarm? My alarm is 10 years old and works perfectly. Can you say with certainty that the company’s cloud will still be effective 10 years from now?"
He looked puzzled for a moment, then admitted he had never thought about it.
The real problem is that people do not realize what this means until things actually happen.
@mr_penguin I thought malls were making a comeback here because people were getting nostalgic for them during the COVID lockdowns.