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October 2, 2026
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility.
Signed into law earlier this year, SB 73 attempted to regulate adult websites by requiring them to block VPN users or to identify the physical location of visitors using them or similar tools that mask their network traffic. It even went so far as to prohibit websites from offering instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass these checks. This made Utah, to EFF’s knowledge, the first state in the nation to target the use of VPNs to avoid legally mandated age-verification gates.
The Utah federal court halted enforcement of the law’s VPN provisions last week, ruling that the law likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on passing laws that significantly burden businesses and people outside Utah’s borders.
SB 73 burdens the rights of all internet users outside of Utah because it requires adult websites to either know every visiting user’s physical location, and then block those in Utah, or to verify every visitor’s age just in case they might be in Utah.
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The court recognized that the problem is that SB 73 “requires entities like Aylo to geolocate its website users with perfection to avoid liability.” But, at the same time, the court acknowledged “that geolocation perfection is not presently possible.”
Mere impossibility never slowed down a determined lawmaker.
ORBIT IS STILL ORBIT:
Accurate analysis https://t.co/VKT3t7noqL
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2026
TELL ME IT’S ALMOST NOTHING BUT GRAFT AND PAYOFFS WITHOUT TELLING ME IT’S ALMOST NOTHING BUT GRAFT AND PAYOFFS:
He’s planning to spend $607 MILLION to renovate…
Wait for it…
1,148 apartments.
That’s roughly $528,746 PER APARTMENT.
For renovations.
$607 million is an insane amount of money. Private developers renovate projects with thousands of apartments for a fraction of that.… https://t.co/aybJwdrTfo
— AP (@Average_NY_Guy) October 1, 2026
JOSH BLACKMAN: Somehow the N.Y. Times Made Me Sympathetic To Chief Justice Roberts: Jodi Kantor’s latest expose tells us nothing about the Court’s decision but does destroy John Roberts’s last refuge from scoundrels like me. “What happens of Hupper Island stays on Hupper Island. Until the New York Times got to it. Jodi Kantor wrote a lengthy expose about how the neighbors feel. She interviews a few of Roberts’s friends and far more of his foes. We learn nothing about the Court, or Roberts’s decision. Unlike the silly story about Martha Ann Alito’s flags, there is no allegation that Roberts did anything wrong. The sole effect, and indeed purpose, of this article, is to show how Roberts is alienated in his family summer home. We learn nothing about Roberts, but learn lots about the awful liberals of Hupper Island.”
IF YOU WONDERED IF THE CORNELL THING WAS A POLITICAL OP: Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case.
FROM NATHAN BRINDLE: I’m the Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!: Volume 5
Imperial Princess Regnant Alice has lately discovered herself to be with child.
This doesn’t stop her usual grind of duties, of which she has also discovered quite the backlog since returning from her honeymoon with Prince Daniel. With the help of both Daniel and her private secretary Lady Candace, and of course that of her loyal maids, the Princess Regnant powers through audiences and public appearances and even the unending round of lavish soirées thrown by the rich and noble of Capital.
As always, though, her life is bound to have problems tossed into it…much like grenades. An ancient frigate appears in Capital space, from a sector a hundred thousand light years away, normally a 12-year one way trip. Of course they bring news of a problem. But their means of arrival may also spark the biggest war seen in the Galaxy since the Wars of the Dispersal…
The fifth volume of the BBESP light novel!
I’D WATCH THAT:
I love this guy. Invite him to speak to our Canadian parliament. When our PM deigns to be present. https://t.co/4x1DkRvZHa
— Barbara Kay (@BarbaraRKay) September 30, 2026
THIS IS THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY I EXPECTED: Using Martian sand dunes, scientists can now map the winter extent of water on Mars.
REMINDER: CHINA’S EFFORT TO SEIZE PART OF INDIA WAS REPULSED BY A SMALLER NUMBER OF INDIAN TROOPS: Why China Will Not Invade Taiwan. Behind China’s vast military lies an untested army, a purged high command and a leadership at war with itself.
NOR DO THEY CARE – IT’S A HEINOUS CHARGE, LIKE RACISM, THAT DEMS LIKE TO LEVEL INDISCRIMINATELY: Troy Jackson’s Apology to Jewish Voters Shows Dems Don’t Know What Genocide Is.
A FUNCTIONING PRESS WOULD HELP ADDRESS THIS BUT THEY APPARENTLY DON’T TEACH JOURNALISM IN J-SCHOOLS THESE DAYS: ‘It’s all F**King Kabuki Theater’: George Santos Went Haywire Talking About His Time in Congress.
THEY DON’T HAVE AMERICAN FEDERAL JUDGES: Higher Residency Fees for Foreign Nationals in Japan in Effect.
EH. IT’S FRANCE. TOUJOURS LA FRANCE: Hundreds Arrested as Students Riot Across France, Setting Schools on Fire.
VIRGINIA CONTINUES VIOLATING BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS: Virginia AG is Making the Process the Punishment in the Old Dominion’s War on Guns.
I HAVE A THEORY THAT THE LATEST KERFUFFLE AND THE BLOW UP OF THE CLANCY CASE ARE BOTH ATTEMPTS BY THE LEFT TO COURT FEMALE LIV: A piece on the ‘Rape On Campus’ myth.
It makes me suspect that the left is not nearly as sure of victory as they pretend to be.
LARRY CORREIA’S VIEW ON THIS: Trump’s student loan policy change.
THEY WOULDN’T BE TRYING TO STOP IT, IF IT WEREN’T EFFECTIVE: Trump’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B worker visas blocked by second judge.
AS I SAID, MIRACLES HAPPENED: FlyDubai Incident.
I’M PUZZLED AS TO WHY WE CAN’T ENFORCE THE LAW ENOUGH TO KEEP PEOPLE MOSTLY SAFE: Secure in their Persons.
October 1, 2026
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.
PEOPLE KEEP SAYING ELON CAN’T DO THINGS, BUT THEIR TRACK RECORD IS POOR: AT&T CEO says Elon Musk’s SpaceX phone strategy not “viable.”
PEOPLE I KNOW IN THE BOOZE INDUSTRY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THIS: Ozempic-Like Drugs Could Have a Surprising Effect on Alcohol Cravings.
