xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

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

Sometimes I wonder how I ended up in this corner of the internet. I'm not "right wing", or conservative, nor do I care for the edgy Hitlerite larp. Feel as though I have no community anymore. Perhaps I never did.

Lunduke is sperging out over Brodie Robertson defending anime lolis 10 years ago. I guess I needed a reminder that Lunduke is a useless faggot.

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.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law

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!

>host a website where people can get real live videos of people(including children) dying in the most gruesome ways

>still think you have the moral highground over someone who makes drawings

Love bombing the Fedi to celebrate being under half my peak bodyweight.

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.

#Meta #MetaGlasses #AR #privacy #surveillance #Vermont

End of an era

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.

#OwnYourData

finally, Dieselpunk gayming

Modified the C-Island netmap a little to mark future points of interest.

When I think about all the top 10 games lists, most of them are focused either on the cultural impact or on the story/sold units.

But does that really define gaming? When I think of gaming as a separate art form, it is defined mostly by emerging gameplay and the depth of functions used to provide your experience.

So, that would make the list look something like:
Factorio
X4: Foundations
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So, what games can you think of, that provide a true deep gaming experience? And is there a good word, that would describe this kind of games? Because I really think, that I am mising the vocabulary to even talk about this topic.

“In Iraq, it took more than three years to reach that high. In Vietnam, it took six years.”

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/antiwar/poll-shows-majority-of-americans-disapproval-of-trumps-iran-war-lower-than-iraq-and-vietnam

#TheFreeThoughtProject

no you cannot have a natural human conversation you MUST stay on topic at all times REEEE