You build a VPN tunnel so your location is nobody's business. As of yesterday in Utah, your location is the platform's business by law, regardless of the tunnel. The bill is Senate Bill 73. Governor Cox signed it on March 19. It took effect May 6. The law effectively bans the VPN by making the website liable for the age of every user physically located in Utah, regardless of the tunnel they routed through, and then forbids the website from explaining how a VPN works. This is liability for what the platform cannot see. A speech ban on naming a legal tool. The only compliant move is to ID every visitor on Earth, in case one of them happens to be in Provo. Or block every known VPN IP address and pray the list is complete. NordVPN says comprehensive blocking of VPN traffic is technically impossible. The EFF says no platform can win this whack-a-mole. Utah's legislature does not care, because compliance was never the point. The point was making encrypted tunnels expensive to deploy and illegal to discuss. The point was driving commercial VPN providers out of the American market until the only people left with private connections are the ones who can stand up their own WireGuard server. Children is the cover, of course. A legislature punished platforms for what they cannot detect, gagged them from naming a tool that has been legal since the day it was invented, and stamped "child safety" on the file. This is the first state. The UK House of Lords already voted 207 to 159 to ban VPNs for minors. France's digital affairs minister has named VPNs as her next target. The fence moves next session, next state, next chamber. Each version will be sold as safety. Each version will be a muzzle.