More on Utah's law that takes aim at the privacy and freedom of ADULTS online (AND youth for that matter):
"NordVPN has called the law an 'unresolvable compliance paradox' and a 'liability trap,' arguing that it holds websites responsible for identifying users whose tools are specifically designed to be unidentifiable. 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."
That is a danger independent of the laws constitutionality. A mere threat is enough to get most companies and sites to comply for fear of protracted and costly legal fights.
What is more disturbing is this is NOT constitutional and they should know it as I previously stated. There were 4-5 rulings by the US supreme court in the 90s on this very subject matter and each struck down the concept of sites having to do age-checks and this was explicitly for porn sites-at that time. The thought that less than porn could somehow magically change this blows my mind.
Youth do not lose their free speech rights when they enter the school house gates:
"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) that students do not 'shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.'"
So on what planet can any state pass a law that shreds them elsewhere where such rights are even MORE staunchly protected and clear cut????
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law
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