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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

soon we’ll have no states to vpn to

I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously. Unlike trying to make porn sites take your credit card info in advance (a policy they hated so much gosh darn it!) you’re really fucking with the money when you try and regulate VPNs. Also, just… not really that practical. For the same reason Congress has been pretty toothless when it comes to regulating Torrents and digital encryption, going after VPNs at the regulatory level is something of a technological rabbit hole.

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baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously

snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Setting aside the fact that there’s no appetite for these laws in liberal states, its purely a conservative fetish, you can still get porn on the internet without going to the big corporate online clearinghouses.
  
  FFS, there was porn on Napster back in the day.
  
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  - baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state, as far as I can tell given how VPN usage skyrockets in every state where these laws are put in place. Is California no longer liberal? Also consider the people running sites in any of the states that have such a law. They may resort to just blanket ID-checking everyone rather than risk prosecution.
    
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    UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state
    
    Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on “child sex trafficking” and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you’re going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as “please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography” laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.
    
    Is California no longer liberal?
    
    Current Status: Failed (2024-08-15: In committee: Held under submission.)
    
    Looks like they’re retaining their title. That said, if you peak under the “Supporters and Opponents” what you’re going to see in the Supporters section is a litany of right-wing evangelical organizations and a couple of mega-corps.
    
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Napster was audio only. Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?
    
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