[darknavi]

> When Utah's Senate Bill 73 goes into force on May 6, websites subject to the state's age verification law will be legally barred from explaining how to use a VPN to get around age restrictions.

This will definitely work. It sounds like it's time for some "How not to use a VPN" articles.

https://www.grapecollective.com/prohibitions-grape-bricks-ho...

[hellojesus]

How is this not a 1A violation?

[ButlerianJihad]

Because you also cannot counsel anyone on how to rob a house, or steal a car, or commit arson.

You can teach them how to start a fire, and fire safety rules for the home, and you can teach them how to secure their cars and point out common vulnerabilities, but you can't actually counsel people on how to commit a crime or do something illegal.

Well, you can and I guess that is your "free speech" but the judge is also going to show you the schedule of fines and penalties.

[hellojesus]

Sure. But that means you can't make it illegal for a site to show you what a VPN is, how to use it, and explain that one shouldn't use it to circumvent a law but could, right?

[dylan604]

yet there are plenty of sites with written or video instructions on how to pick a lock.

[ButlerianJihad]

Picking a lock is not necessarily illegal. You could be a locksmith in training; you could be picking your own locks. You could be just in a lab or a classroom or a manufacturer that does this stuff.

[Kim_Bruning]

You could even be a lawyer! https://www.youtube.com/@lockpickinglawyer

[ButlerianJihad]

He even sells all the necessary tools to assemble a burglary kit.

I feel like his channel is some psyop honeypot to get all the criminals with Dunning-Kruger to buy his tools and then Google calls the cops before they can even jimmy a lock.

The catch with the LPL is that a lot of skill and experience also goes into picking locks. He does it reliably and quickly and efficiently because he knows how. If some goober tried to replicate his success wearing a balaclava at 3am, it may prove a bit more thorny a problem.

[mmh0000]

It very likely is, but someone is going to have to pay lawyers tons of money and wait for years for it to go through the courts to stop it.

[rootusrootus]

Time to go chuck a few bucks at the EFF...

[nine_k]

More seriously: what good an age restriction is if it can be circumvented by a VPN?

[tomrod]

A litmus test in the law for "good" (freedom-respecting) laws and "bad" (moral judgement/forcing homogenous morals) laws.

Utah has chosen, unfortunately, to abrogate the rights of parents to raise their children and to allow people to engage privately online.

[ryukoposting]

Thanks for an interesting read!