Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn't get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away.It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians...
  • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
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    1 month ago

    Bad article, made even worse by being written as if the author understands a thing about VPNs.

    Websites have no way to tell if a VPN connection is coming from Milwaukee, Michigan, or Mumbai. The technology just doesn’t work that way.

    Maybe, if you’re writing about such stuff, you’re first supposed to research that “the technology just doesn’t work this way” and websites don’t see VPN connections. They terminate on the VPN server and the websites have no reliable way to know whether a packet used to travel through a VPN or multiple before.

    Websites subject to this proposed law are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state.

    Since the latter is plain impossible, there is no choice.

    Boo-o.