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On 7/26/2025 2:34 PM, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:44:40 -0400,
> Retirednoguilt <HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/25/2025 2:15 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> On 2025-07-25 16:37, Retirednoguilt wrote:
>>>> On 7/24/2025 4:30 PM, micky wrote:
>>>>> What is the point of some pages imposing regional requirments when by
>>>>> now almost everyone knows they can use a VPN to sidestep the regional
>>>>> requirements?
>>>>
>>>> Your question should be directed to the membership of the state
>>>> legislatures that passed the bills that became state law.  Oh, and don't
>>>> forget to also asked those states' governors who signed the bills into law.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> I know businesses doing geolocation on their site. For instance, kobo. 
>>> They sell ebooks. I want to see books in English, but they insist in 
>>> showing Spanish books, per my location. Even if I configure my 
>>> preferences to English.
>>>
>>> They will sell me whatever book I ask for, but I have to ask for it, 
>>> they are not offered to me as "new offerings" or "Top books in UK".
>>>
>>
>> I think Micky is referring to "adult" web sites that now need to comply
> 
> No I'm not.  This started 10 years ago when I was abroad and wanted to
> watch a movie from my Baltimore library via Kanoply, which is in the US,
> maybe Baltimore. it's come up since then and the most recent was this
> week when I want my brother, a radiologist now visiting Peru, to look at
> my MRIs, on the radiology website in the USA, and I'm anticipating that
> he might need a VPN to do so.  Hence the question, if anyone can do it
> with a VPH, why do they bother restricting it in the first place?
> Because it worked before there were VPNs and they can't break the habit?
> Just to slow people down a little?  
> 
> Some of this has to do with copyrights, I think, but not all. 
> 
> But I've heard about porn sites. If all they have to do is check a box
> that says they are 18, doesn't evey kid who knows how to read know how
> to do that?  So it seems like no protection at all. 
>

My understanding is that the "adult" web sites in states with proof of
age laws for access are required to implement a method to read your IP
address. If that address is a US IP address, the simple checkbox thing
doesn't meet the requirement of that state law and instead, those sites
must require the visitor to provide information such as driver's license
#, to gain access. If the visitor's IP address is registered in a
country other than the US, the law doesn't pertain.  That's why a VPN
that can spoof an IP address outside the US can can usually be used to
gain access to those sites without soliciting or requiring a more formal
proof of age.

>> states that are more worried about younger people accessing those web
>> sites than they are about whether or not those kids get enough
>> nourishing food to eat or appropriate medical care. 

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regional requirements?  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-24 16:30 -0400
  Re: regional requirements? Retirednoguilt <HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com> - 2025-07-25 10:37 -0400
    Re: regional requirements? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-07-25 20:15 +0200
      Re: regional requirements? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-07-25 20:42 +0200
        Re: regional requirements? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-07-25 22:42 +0200
          Re: regional requirements? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-07-26 02:51 +0200
            Re: regional requirements? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-26 02:40 +0000
              Re: regional requirements? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-26 14:25 -0400
                Re: regional requirements? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-07-26 20:40 +0200
                Re: regional requirements? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-26 14:49 -0400
                Re: regional requirements? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-07-26 21:30 +0200
          Re: regional requirements? Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-07-26 18:12 +0200
      Re: regional requirements? Retirednoguilt <HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com> - 2025-07-25 14:44 -0400
        Re: regional requirements? danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2025-07-25 18:52 +0000
        Re: regional requirements? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-26 14:34 -0400
          Re: regional requirements? Retirednoguilt <HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com> - 2025-07-27 10:40 -0400
    Re: regional requirements? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-26 02:23 +0000
      Re: regional requirements? Retirednoguilt <HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com> - 2025-07-26 10:11 -0400
        Re: regional requirements? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-27 00:20 +0000
      Re: regional requirements? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-07-27 14:32 +0200
        Re: regional requirements? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-27 11:44 -0400

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