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How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] FlyingSquid 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Too many American corporations rely on VPNs for that to happen. The last thing politicians want is to piss off their corporate masters.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

They mostly use self-hosted VPNs, not your regular, everyday VPN like Mullvad or Proton VPN. So they're not going to ban the tech, but maybe they'll try to ban the public services.

I already host my own, so they'll have no power over me. Even if they successfully prevent me from making a VPN, I have other options (SOCKS proxies, SSH tunnels, etc).