In January of this year I talked about age verification and VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) in the United Kingdom.
Now the scene shifts to Utah.
Freezenet, which is concerned about the constitutionality of such laws, describes the current situation as follows:
“Utah’s age verification law includes a VPN ban provision which has really raised the stakes on things. First proposed early this year, the Utah law went into effect, then a court blocked the law from going into effect, then the block expired, allowing the law to go into effect again. Now, a judge has ruled that the VPN ban law is unconstitutional.”
The interesting thing about these efforts is that they combine two technologies. First they implement age verification. But when affected parties get around age verification by going to a different jurisdiction, a ban on VPN technology is added. Eventually if you pile up enough technologies you’ll get the results that the first technology couldn’t deliver on its own.
And that’s why they’re trying to do in Utah.
