VPN searches increased dramatically after adult website blocks visitors from Utah
Published June 7, 2023, 11:20 a.m. by Naomi Charles
After a prominent adult website blocked visitors from Utah because of a new age verification law, searches for information about VPNs increased dramatically #utah #utpol #utpolitics #politics #political #news #technology #vpn #shorts
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every action has an equal opposite
reaction even online I'm Brian Schott
and I'm a reporter for the Salt Lake
Tribune on Monday a prominent adult
website blocked users from Utah from
accessing their content the move was in
response to a new Utah law that requires
adult websites to verify the age of
visitors from Utah to make sure they are
18 or older well you'll never guess what
happened next I'm simply saying that
life
finds a way within 24 hours the number
of people from Utah who searched online
for information about virtual private
networks also known as vpns increase
dramatically for the uninitiated a VPN
allows a user to hide their location and
other information while they're online
take a look at this data from Google
search trends that was compiled by the
cultural current Institute this is from
March of this year and if you look at
the number of people searching for
information about vpns Utah's above
average but we're behind other states
like Virginia California and Nevada and
this is from the day after users in Utah
were blocked from accessing adult
content on that website a number of
other adult oriented websites have
already implemented the age verification
procedures as required by Utah law
