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Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] 667@lemmy.radio 48 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Seems like it’s the first step in transferring control of the internet to the government.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 23 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Step 1 to China/Russia/Iran level internet?

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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

They tried in Russia and electronic payment terminals, that use a VPN, stopped working.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago

The government? Whoever is the highest bidder for all the data being gathered. Probably Palantir, as ever.

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