Wisconsin wants to force all adult sites to block VPNs – here's what we know
Wisconsin wants to force all adult sites to block VPNs – here's what we know
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Wisconsin wants to force all adult sites to block VPNs – here's what we know
The bill has now landed in the Senate for consideration
This seems entirely unenforceable. All an adult site has to do is say "We're not doing business in Wisconsin" and block Wisconsin IP addresses. 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?
The only workable version, as the article suggests, is to basically ban VPN operators from selling to people in Wisconsin. But even then, with a little technical know how, or a good guide, someone can rent a $5 VPS and set up their own Wireguard tunnel to route all their traffic through it and boom, now they're a customer from Germany. So are they going to ban VPS as well? This isn't a solvable problem and never will be.
Because they do a whois on the IP and see it's owned by a VPN provider or a VPS provider and then they block it.
How would they know the person using that VPN or VPS is from Wisconsin? That's the only place this all applies to.
But only the VPN provider would know if the source is Wisconsin. And only if they're using one VPN. Double up and now no one knows.
If a website geoblocks a state, then that state no longer has any jurisdiction to that website. If the state doesnt want users accessing 'restricted' sites with vpns, they should be imposing their laws on the local isps to block vpns...