• Scoopta@programming.dev
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    16 hours ago

    What would likely happen is VPN providers would be IP banned but people could still setup their own custom VPN solutions as that’s hard to ban without banning corporate VPNs? Of course my fear is as this idea spreads VPNs and even Tor will become increasingly useless as all exits will be age gated and censored as well. This is something where technical work arounds will only work in the short term, laws like this are a slippery slope that we seem to be sliding down.

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      15 hours ago

      Then what? They are going to ban the use of cloud hosting? The end solution is a national intranet, a great firewall and it would destroy the USA. It’s ridiculous to even suggest banning VPNs, but that’s the right for you…

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        14 hours ago

        I think the real problem here is politicians are some of the most technically illiterate people on the planet. They think they can legislate away problems that they can’t…while ignoring the root cause of the issue (I’m mostly referring to the age gating of services, banning porn and VPNs isn’t even trying to solve a problem, it’s moronic)