nixCraft 🐧Nov 15

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

I'm gonna be honest here: banning VPNs is not the solution. People who want to find content like porn will get it one way or another. It is going to harm legitimate users who use VPNs for security reasons, like on public WiFi or for getting inside a corporate network. I can't log into any of our servers/cloud w/o a VPN. All remote employees use a VPN. We replicate data between 2 data centers using a VPN

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.

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@nixCraft Right, so, I really want to know how they're going to do that from a Technical perspective.

1. I run my own OpenVPN because I use a lot of hostile networks (coffee shops, etc) and need to protect my work.
2. Corporate VPNs are just that. All remote Microsoft employees (as example) working remote are required to use MS's VPN.
3. SSH tunnels still work. Stop that.

I guess you can block (say) NordVPN and the big ones.

Wisconsin laws are very, very strange. It's a strange place.

Nov 15 at 7:30pmWeb