Utah tried to crack down on one of the biggest workarounds to its online age-verification laws, however, a federal judge just blocked the effort.
U.S. District Judge David Barlow granted a preliminary injunction on Sept. 24 blocking a new provision of Utah’s age-verification law aimed at people who use VPNs to hide their location.
The ruling is part of a lawsuit brought by Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.
Barlow found that Aylo was likely to succeed in arguing that the provision violates the Constitution’s dormant Commerce Clause, which limits states from imposing excessive burdens on interstate commerce. The judge found that Utah’s law…
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