I’d assume they’d give companies an exemption if they made private VPN use illegal. Doesn’t China do something similar to this?

Yes but they’ve done this before in countries like US. They went after the T Shirt producers printing the DeCSS on them and recently the whole tornado cash fiasco where they tried to make smart contracts illegal (although this was overturned).

Granted though I think DeCSS contained proprietary code so its a little different but unfortunately I view most governmental control and censorship to be braindead but I still fear they will do it.

They would have exemptions for corporate VPNs and encryption and for members of parliament and all that of course, but I could absolutely see them trying to fuck us all sooner rather than later.

I hope I’m just paranoid.

But if it were illegal as soon as you connected to one single blacklisted IP you’d be fucked, right?

Can your ISP not tell you’re using a VPN?

Would it not be easy for them to block access to VPNs if they outlaw them?

What do you do then?

I guess a better way to phrase the question is if they are outlawed how can I use one without my ISP knowing.

If your ISP can tell you’re using a VPN then yes, making them illegal would prevent me from using them right?

I use GNOME on my distros so it’s pretty handy for operating the system with just a keyboard.