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Wisconsin wants to force all adult sites to block VPNs – here's what we know (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In response to this initial statement

Then if someone from Wisconsin accesses their content via a VPN, well, literally the point of doing that is that your traffic no longer appears to be coming from Wisconsin. So how would they know?

My argument is that sites don't have to know if you are from a jurisdiction that requires an ID, if they want to take the "leave no chance" approach of instead ensuring you're not from such a jurisdiction. They will know you're on a VPN because they can reverse lookup an IP to see that it is owned by a VPN provider (or VPS provider), and the site can choose to either block you or ask you to age verify based on what they do know instead of what they don't know.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I can make the argument that someone that lives in Wisconsin to drive over state border and access the website in another state... do websites block neighboring states? What if they are on business trip and cross country. Ban that state too? Hell they might be on vacation in germany, better ban germany too.

Your arguement is beyond ridiculous. Once a website geoblocks a region, thats it. States can sue all they want, but they have zero jurisdiction.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Sites are already directing VPN-connected visitors to prove age with an ID. I'm not just hypothesizing, it's already happening. I agree it's ridiculous, but again, they're already doing it.