Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next - Lemmy NZ

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This article seems a little misinformed: VPNs are still regularly used in business and are necessary for companies to function. That’s still probably their primary use if I had to guess.

People who are trying to ban them clearly have no clue what they’re doing as banning VPNs would be an absolute disaster, not just for privacy minded people or folks who want to watch something region locked, but for the basic tech functions of just about any sizeable business.

Very easy to write “except businesses” in legislation

In American anyone can run a business as a sole proprietor.

So that would essentially invalidate the law.

They would probably code the language to ban people selling access to a vpn, but not stop you from running your own.