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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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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 20 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Every website would be better served to come up with a way to block all IP ranges that come out of Utah ISPs. Better to just block the whole state than try to play this game.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

And the reverse too, spam the state servers with age-unverified connections and then file a complaint against the state.