Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

If you're using a VPN while inside Missxi and access the site without age verification, would that cause the site to be in violation of the law?

Seems to work without issue in states that require age verification for pornography sites. Would assume a site like pornhub has spent money on lawyers

IANAL but i don't think using a vpn matters...Because whether a user is using a vpn or otherwise or not, if the user is identified as from Mississippi, that would be the test for whether these guys would need to block or not. Like, if a user from Mississippi uses a vpn, and these guys don't know that and detect that this user's IP is from, say, Arkansas...how would they be held liable? Unless, i'm missing something, right?

I don’t see how, but the people trying to implement total control of speech, thought, and communication in America are a diabolical and crafty bunch that will likely try putting someone through the wringer for that one day.

The end game here is total control and awareness of who is saying what at any time, in order to allow those messages to be thwarted.

NAL, but yes, I believe that it would still be a violation of the law. That said, laws aren't applied by robots and it's likely they would be given leniency if they could show they actually tried to respect the law.

If they make an honest attempt to comply and a small number of people using VPNs slip through the cracks, if they're ever reported, they'll likely be given a slap on the wrist at most. If they ignore the law or do some obvious half assed attempt to comply and thousands of Mississippi users are still using their site and they get reported, it's far less likely that a judge will be lenient.

The site is legally required to apply "commercially reasonable measures" to prevent the kind of access that this law is against. Whether that includes blocking accessing it over VPNs is anyone's guess.