LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agoUtah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checkswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square120linkfedilinkarrow-up1664arrow-down111
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minus-squaredisorderly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up89arrow-down1·28 days ago To date, the only countries that have made progress in blocking VPN traffic with some success are authoritarian regimes with ISP-level surveillance. You know you’re on to something when the only playbook you can find was written by the Chinese government.
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·28 days agoThe horseshoe theory of mass surveillance
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoI don’t think it’s has anything to do with a horseshoe when they are just becoming a dictatorship as well. It’s just a line at that point.
minus-squareohshit604@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·28 days agoEven the Chinese government struggles tracking people using VPN’s, Utah is in for a rude awakening.
You know you’re on to something when the only playbook you can find was written by the Chinese government.
The horseshoe theory of mass surveillance
I don’t think it’s has anything to do with a horseshoe when they are just becoming a dictatorship as well. It’s just a line at that point.
Even the Chinese government struggles tracking people using VPN’s, Utah is in for a rude awakening.