LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours 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-square183fedilinkarrow-up1602arrow-down14
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minus-squarecley_faye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up64·7 hours agoRemember when we told people “they’ll make it illegal to use a VPN” and we got snarky replies like “it’s not enforceable LOL”. The fuck it isn’t. Traffic coming from a VPN? That’s a paddlin’, kiddo. They’re not even trying to masquerade it as… oh, yes, they’re still trying to masquerade as a “think of the children!” measure. Those fuckers.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 minutes ago and we got snarky replies like “it’s not enforceable LOL”. Not being enforceable hasn’t stopped a lot of bad laws from being enacted.
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·7 hours agohttps://ur.io/ People can use this to look like local traffic.
minus-squareDeckPacker@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 hours agoThis seems a bit sketchy to me. How am I getting paid for participating when it’s completely free?
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 hours agohttps://docs.ur.io/economic-model/economic-model Their economic model comes from premium subscriptions. Its free to use with a data cap.
minus-squarezorro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 hours agoSo what legally protects a provider from prison if users view illegal content via my network?
minus-squareapex32@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoReminds me of the guy who got his home raided and electronics seized for running a Tor exit node. https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operating-tor-exit-node/ Seems risky and a huge legal hassle even if you don’t end up in prison.
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoThey could run it on a Linux VPS. They might want to have a notice ready as if they were running a tor exit relay and let the host know.
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoThe problem for most users is: they actually want to look like traffic from somewhere else…
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoI meant to say residential traffic of whatever country they connect to instead of a data center.
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 hours agohttps://github.com/urnetwork Their software is open source.
Remember when we told people “they’ll make it illegal to use a VPN” and we got snarky replies like “it’s not enforceable LOL”.
The fuck it isn’t. Traffic coming from a VPN? That’s a paddlin’, kiddo.
They’re not even trying to masquerade it as… oh, yes, they’re still trying to masquerade as a “think of the children!” measure. Those fuckers.
Not being enforceable hasn’t stopped a lot of bad laws from being enacted.
https://ur.io/
People can use this to look like local traffic.
This seems a bit sketchy to me. How am I getting paid for participating when it’s completely free?
https://docs.ur.io/economic-model/economic-model
Their economic model comes from premium subscriptions. Its free to use with a data cap.
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So what legally protects a provider from prison if users view illegal content via my network?
Reminds me of the guy who got his home raided and electronics seized for running a Tor exit node.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operating-tor-exit-node/
Seems risky and a huge legal hassle even if you don’t end up in prison.
They could run it on a Linux VPS. They might want to have a notice ready as if they were running a tor exit relay and let the host know.
The problem for most users is: they actually want to look like traffic from somewhere else…
I meant to say residential traffic of whatever country they connect to instead of a data center.
it seems very unsafe
https://github.com/urnetwork
Their software is open source.