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[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 106 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

As we’ve said time and time again: the internet will always route around censorship.

Of course it will. I don’t understand why Utah thinks they can censor content when countries like North Korea and China demonstrate that a circumvention is always found.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 71 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the original design considerations for what became the internet was that it should be able to automatically route around outages and allow communications to still get through, even if many of its nodes were taken out by nuclear war.

Finding a way to get around blockages is practically what the internet was designed to do.

[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Believe me, I’m old enough to know that very well. I’m more flabbergasted that state lawmakers in Utah have the audacity to believe they can accomplish what a totalitarian state can’t.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you been to Utah. They started out as a totalitarian state, were forced to integrate, but long to return to their roots.

[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 16 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, they did not integrate very far. Obligatory fuck Mormonism.

[–] iuseasahibtw@ani.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

I use VPNs when I'm in China just to download anime, grim.

[–] BrownSugarBits@lemmy.world 93 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The last time I checked, no person under the age of 18 can purchase internet access from an ISP. An adult has to enter a contract before a single byte can be transferred across the internet. All the content you see online was put there by an adult, or the responsibility of an adult. The internet itself is already an age gate.

This shit is like a nightclub sueing the government to have the bus driver check id's

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can find an open Wi-Fi network

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

FBI surveillance van

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 90 points 3 weeks ago

EFF to the rescue.

[–] TheKracken@lemmy.world 54 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Omfg just talk to your kids and fucking be a parent. It's not that hard. Fucking puritanical shitlords.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 26 points 3 weeks ago

These laws have nothing to do with children but on paper..

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 38 points 3 weeks ago

More like *that empowers the surveillance state.

Honestly, I have nothing against age restricted spaces (within reason). When a bouncer checks your ID at a bar, they historically haven't been logging that interaction. Its not used to track your movement, reported to your health insurance company, etc...

If you assigned the death penalty to CEOs who store or sell verification information I could maybe be talked into providing my ID to an online company.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is real life now. But also Idiocracy.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's got what plants crave.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Water? Like from the toilet?

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I ain’t never seen no plant growing out of no toilet

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aylo’s lawsuit does not challenge SB 73’s provision prohibiting the websites covered by the law from sharing information about VPNs.

Well, somebody should challenge that as well. Seems like a clear-cut 1st amendment violation to me.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think that's why it was pointed out.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

But Jesus told them to pass the law.

/s