Starting Friday, Arizonans will have to prove they’re old enough to access nude photos and sexual activity online.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250920182330/https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/article_9910862c-cd28-4da6-9684-aa7130aca93a.html
Phase 1 is nearing completion!
Now come to think of it, couldn’t any website have dangerous scary material for kids? In fact, really the whole Internet could! In fact!!! Oh my gosh! Even your house could have really scary bad things for kids in it conceivably. I suppose we will have to put ID badge readers on everyone’s front doors now. And cameras of course. We should probably even put cameras in the children’s bathrooms to make sure nothing bad is happening to them in there.
Oh my goodness, they need to outlaw mirrors! The kids will see themselves naked in the bathroom!!!
Somebody will need to appoint a panel to determine which information is explicitly approved for public consumption. You just can’t be too careful.
OMG you just gave me the best business idea - penis detection cameras. These need to be all over the little girls restrooms.
Headline on Saturday: “VPN usage spikes in Arizona, officials baffled”
VPN providers driving off into the sunset with dollar bills flying out the windows.
Y’all get that banning vpns is the next step right?
I’m going to guess that you don’t work in tech, because good luck accomplishing that.
The overwhelming majority of businesses that allow remote work do so via VPN. It’s possible for some companies to get away with just Office 365 and some basic collaboration tools, but not for most. Some businesses even set up secure VPN tunnels between sections of their network and a section belonging to a contracted partner, software vendor, data processing firm, auditors, etc.
So banning is absurdly unlikely. But let’s say they do, or they restrict “allowed” VPN through government approved VPN software or something.
There are countless ways to hide VPN traffic as other legitimate/normal web traffic. Plenty of people in war torn areas, reporting from countries with locked down internet, and other similar scenarios have effectively proven that you can’t completely lock things down.
So they could ban it, but that’s absurdly unlikely, and even if they do there will be plenty of relatively safe ways around it.
It’s not even just businesses. The entire federal government is completely dependent on VPNs.
Fascist rarely make rules that apply to them.
Though it might still be enough of a chilling effect that the majority of folks won’t even go near it.
What percentage of the population do you think is technologically literate to be capable of that? Now whatever answer you’re about to give me divide it by 10. That’s the closer answer. You don’t need 100% of people to control a society.
( Also I’m not sure where you got the idea that causing massive damage to businesses and the economy as a whole would stop them from doing things. Cause that ship has sailed.)
On one hand yes, of course. But on the other, to drive people to use yet another (oftentimes) subscription service, it’s seems like a Pro Capitalist move for another grift avenue.
I was going not renew NordVPN…but…sometimes the wife doesn’t wanna put out a man gotta do what a man gotta do.
