In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our comments to the Utah Department of Commerce, detailing how forcing platforms to detect and block privacy-preserving tools undermines user privacy and security worldwide while demanding the impossible.
  • BrownSugarBits@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    18 days ago

    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

  • LilB0kChoy@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    18 days ago

    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.socialEnglish
      3·
      18 days ago

      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.

  • TheKracken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    18 days ago

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

      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        01·
        18 days ago

        Everywhere, stuff should have a knowledge or “maturity” test. People age and mature differently, they shouldn’t be limited due to arbitrary distinctions like an age.

        • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish
          0·
          18 days ago

          Problem with that is different people have different ideas as to what’s “mature enough,” or even “mature” at all.

          • tankfox@bookwyr.meEnglish
            1·
            18 days ago

            and since the point is the tracking and not the age at all there’s no reason to even try a maturity test. it’s about your identity, nothing more and nothing less, every single time it’s brought up. If they cared even a shred about kids we’d have universal healthcare so as usual it’s just flat out lies to our face.