The people making these laws wouldn’t care if they understood, wouldn’t undersrand if they knew, and absolutely aren’t interested in knowing. Basically ever.
And what about all the companies that use VPNs? Do they just shut down because the government made them illegal?
Just literally told you how. One line. Easy. Just declare VPN usage illegal for the common plebeian or when not credentialed with a company that is reporting to the government. Ez pz.
The purpose of a ban is not necessarily to 100% remove use. A law can not, by definition, make something happen or not happen (think eg.: speed cap in traffic law). It does give the lawhandler permission to remove your rights if you are “found” to be infringing.
If I was a repressive government, I wouldn’t want to ban VPNs. What I’d want is identity verification before you booted the VPN up, ideally in the form of some program or application running on your device, so that I, the repressive government, can track what you do through the VPN.
If I was a repressive government, I would want my citizens to be secure from non-governmental threats, if for no other reason than to my government look better.
Besides, if it helps, VPNs are really hard to ban. China has been trying for decades now without much success.
Well this was 100% to be expected. Banning VPNs is next, then TOR and before you know it you have to scan your ID to even access the internet.
Say goodbye to the “free” internet. Say hello to Orwellian “state approved” internet.
You cannot feasibly ban VPNs. Too many use cases for businesses.
Easily solvable, already is. Laws for me, not for thee.
And what about all the companies that use VPNs? Do they just shut down because the government made them illegal?
One thing I know about my country is that companies rule what happens and so this would never happen.
If you don’t believe me, then feel free to educate me on how you would do this and countries that have already succeeded.
Furthermore you can disguise VpN traffic as regular old HTTPs traffic.
What’s that got to do with corporations?
The people making these laws wouldn’t care if they understood, wouldn’t undersrand if they knew, and absolutely aren’t interested in knowing. Basically ever.
Just literally told you how. One line. Easy. Just declare VPN usage illegal for the common plebeian or when not credentialed with a company that is reporting to the government. Ez pz.
No country on Earth has successfully banned VPNs. End of.
The purpose of a ban is not necessarily to 100% remove use. A law can not, by definition, make something happen or not happen (think eg.: speed cap in traffic law). It does give the lawhandler permission to remove your rights if you are “found” to be infringing.
Oi oi oi, you got a loicense for that vpn?
If I was a repressive government, I wouldn’t want to ban VPNs. What I’d want is identity verification before you booted the VPN up, ideally in the form of some program or application running on your device, so that I, the repressive government, can track what you do through the VPN.
If I was a repressive government, I would want my citizens to be secure from non-governmental threats, if for no other reason than to my government look better.
Besides, if it helps, VPNs are really hard to ban. China has been trying for decades now without much success.
It’s better to have it be illegal, and available. That way the government can selectively prosecute and punish (political) opponents.