Post #2389912
2026-05-03 16:28 UTC
The EFF warned that the legal risk could push sites to either ban all known VPN IPs or mandate age verification for every visitor globally.
This is the goal.
Replies (4)
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@Godort@lemmy.ca 2026-05-03 16:53
Could they not also just selectively ban all Utah-based IPs? People in Utah could still access with a VPN, but never would, because that would be against the law.
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@ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 20:30
In Hungary, we have a term "impossibilization", used to describe laws that are not technically banning things, but making them near impossible to do. The christofascists of the US want to ban porn without actually banning porn, because that pesky constitution doesn't allow it yet.
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@Zephorah@discuss.online 2026-05-03 16:30
Likely.
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@Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2026-05-04 02:06
_site traffic gets cut by 30%_ "How could this have happened?"