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Government in Utah is essentially a Mormon theocracy. People voted for medical cannabis and the church lobbied and got the will of the people overturned. They have strange alcoh…
by SauciestGNU · Oct 2, 2026
This is what I was missing. Demanding that porn sites block VPN traffic (or only accept residential traffic) would mean that everyone everywhere using a VPN gets blocked not jus…
by irenaeus · Oct 2, 2026
Utah argues that websites can "age assure VPN-using Utahns, [so] any decision by Aylo to instead age-verify all users would be a voluntary business choice, not an effect forced…
by Ukv · Oct 2, 2026
https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/SB0073.html | An individual is considered to be accessing the website from this state if the individual is a…
by cryptonector · Oct 2, 2026
It seems like withdrawing from Utah is the obvious option
by babelfish · Oct 2, 2026
And still required by Utah law.
by compiler-guy · Oct 2, 2026
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Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, and Nevada to the west. In comparison to all the U.S. states and territories, Utah, with a population of just over three million, is the 13th-largest by area, the 30th-most populous, and the 11th-least densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two regions: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which includes the state capital, Salt Lake City, and is home to roughly two-thirds of the population; and Washington County in the southwest, which has approximately 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Read more on Wikipedia