This is what happens when you elect morons to legislate technology they dont understand.
More ways to control our lives and track our movements.
“Party of small government”.
Personally, I would stop using any site that did this. We all know nothing matters in this country but money. Companies stop making as much, they’ll get legislation changed.
if they are so concerned about children, how about doing something about the mormon church and the fucking horrible crimes that are committed against women and children in it?
But spoofing a phone number and harassing me all day isn’t worth solutioning. This Gov. is not representing us.
If I were a lawyer arguing against the law in court, my primary argument would be that this violates the interstate commerce section of the US Constitution.
looks at the scotus playbook
yeah that falls in between ‘nuhh uh’ and ‘don’t care’.
only problem is, it’s gonna get upheld 6-3
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I bet you a dollar that all of them are technologically illiterate.
It’s not just that, it’s that they don’t care. People keep assuming it’s solely based on a lack of knowledge but the real point is establishing consequences to prevent the things that can’t fight it from existing to begin.
They’ll decline to go after the websites they as lawmakers use themselves, but will instead hit up independent things that can’t afford to fight back and will just close when contacted.
i mean, how are we defining tech illiteracy? they have heard of the twitter, okay?
I think politicians have special law right to avoid that consequences of their actions.
Citizens also have special action that leds them bypass laws.
It’s called anarchy to some, and full-on revolution to others.
Land of the free etc
It seems like it’s just a matter of time until the US has it’s own red firewall.
I’m so weary of everything getting a little bit worse every day.
I’m sure we all used to be excited about the future of the internet but now it’s just shit.
I’m glad I at least got to enjoy the golden age of the internet before enshittification started to infect everything.
I used to see technology as our only hope and now I dread the new hells we’re creating.
I get the sentiment, and I’m right there with you about the erosion of our rights every day being very exhausting.
The trick is to never stop being mad about things like this, because complacency is how they win.
Maybe we should just start blocking Utah like folks block North Korea. Utahans clearly want only Facebook and MySpace, and it’s rude of us to second-guess.
Get a list of every dumbass politician who voted this through, and access their campaign websites through a VPN from a computer in Utah. Boom.
Self owned.
Politicians will be exempt. That ain’t that stupid.
They didn’t write this law, the lobbyists did.
That is probably true. But the lobbyists have no power to actually make the law. And the politicians to do have the power to sell a law for enough money. But they are not as stupid as many here think. They will somehow be exempt from prosecution.
Have they thought about passing a law that checks to see if the people making the law have an IQ above 50?
This is the dumbest, most waste of time bullshit particularly when the rest of the country is imploding. Maybe they should focus on things that matter.
So how do they plan on figuring out if any given user behind a VPN is in Utah?
Age and identity verification. Unfortunately selling user data is profitable, so I think this will become more common.
So let’s cripple websites that have VPN users… Lmao. Dumbest fucking government ever.
Well while your isp can’t see what you do when you use a vpn. They can see you use a vpn.
So there is that. However you could use an isp that is not in utah
We can just add a few thousand tor nodes too. Not sure how they will ever enforce this.
Russia’s VPN crackdown disrupts banks, marketplaces and government services
And so if I’m in Utah as a traveller I can’t check my local news by vpn? Ok
This from the people who elected a notorious pedophile, “thinking” that he would find the real pedophiles.
