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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Oh, I know the solution to making sure that kids can't access the internet between the hours of 10 PM and 7 AM!

If a VPN can change your IP address to an address in any other timezone, the company just needs to account for all timezones. And to be extra, extra sure that it's impossible to break the law, they just need to be super duper liberal about how it works:

Is it 4 PM in Hawaii? Well, that's 10 PM on the east coast, and we know a VPN could route traffic through a Hawaiian IP address. Better play it safe and start restricting access at 08:00 UTC. Oh, but then there's timezones from all over the globe. Pack it up, boys, because it's always going to between 10 and 7 somewhere on the planet.