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Utah will begin enforcing its age verification law for adult websites this Monday, November 2, and state officials say they have new technology to find sites that aren’t complying. The Utah Department of Commerce told FOX 13 it will crawl the web for commercial sites covered by SB73. Commerce Commissioner Margaret Woolley Busse said the law applies to any site where more than a third of the content is adult. Sites that fail to verify users’ ages face administrative fines of up to $2,500 per violation. “If you’re looking at thousands of violations, then those add up quickly,” Busse said. Busse said sites must use active age verification, “not just a site that offers a button where you claim you are.” How a site verifies ages is “up to them,” she said. Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, sued over the law in April. In September a federal judge blocked one provision, which treated users on VPNs as if they were in Utah. The state says the rest of the law is enforceable. SB73 also placed a 2% tax on content sales by sites required to verify ages, which took effect October 1. @mikestabile of @FSCArmy, which represents the adult industry, said compliant sites are at a disadvantage because social media platforms and sites based outside the US aren’t verifying ages. “We comply and nobody else does,” he said. The coalition supports device-based verification. “That might be the ideal, but that might not be achievable,” Busse said. The report did not address whether websites run by individual creators would be reviewed.