Technology

FTFY:

Lawmakers ~~Want to Ban VPNs—And They~~ Have No Idea What They're Doing

At some point we'll just have to tunnel IP over DNS, and then they can't block traffic without destroying the entire internet. Not that it'll dissuade them.

Welcome to:

People's Republic of America

美利坚人们共和国

Long Live Chairman Trump

Maybe he reign a thousand years!

/s

Wisconsin already blocks access to all goverment websites if you use a VPN. I can't even check the garbage collection schedule for my town. I always thought it was this misguided concept that they thought only "hackers" would want to be anonymous. It seems they are really working for the data brokers, who don't want anyone to be anonymous.

Soooo… screw the network of a bunch of companies I guess, lol. I have to use my work’s VPN while working from home, but the way they set it up I also have to use it while working at the office. This is far from a unique setup over here. If this happens to be the same in Wisconsin I have some bad news for them.

Lawmakers Have No Idea What They're Doing

Sounds like a headline for literally every issue regarding technology.

Porn websites should just start blocking access for any lawmakers that are okay with this legislative garbage.

As usual. Our government, your government, totally clueless about how the internet works or what it actually is. And with all the money they waste every day, there seems to be no cent left to get some professional who could explain things on a politicians mental level. We've got people who successful teach computers to seniors, maybe politicians should hire some...

My home network is all under Mullvad for a few months now, and I've noticed that recently a lot of pages block it. I just get a 403 error and I need to disable it to access. Honestly I expect this to happen more and more, which is BS.

ah yes, every time they want to do something abhorrent, they cry "its for the children!" to immediately try and silence any critics.

There's a genocide going on. It's not the porn degenerates, it's the moral religious people. Don't push this garbage onto children. At least wait until they're 25 and their brain is fully developed before you teach them that women are the problem, that little boys should be fondled by grown men, and that it's OK to commit a genocide against the people who pray to a different sky wizards than you.

If I understood it correctly, per that legislation and given how the technology works, adult sites would have to block everybody coming to them from a known VPN exit point, not matter where the user actually is (because a site can't really tell were a user actually is when they're behind a VPN) to comply with it, meaning that it would impact everybody everywhere in the World using a VPN.

De facto Wisconcin's legilslature is trying to imposed their will not only on those who live in Wisconsin, not only on those who live anywhere in the US but on those who live anywhere in World.

Ok, so don’t use a vpn, just go to a proxy running in another country that is connected to a vpn?

these people deserve a big FUCK YOU to the face, in front of an audience.

Republicans, defending a pedophile as president, should get a full swing of a bat in the teeth every single time they say anything "... for the children"

They understand what they're doing. They're treating the problem as a black box - they want to decide what you can do in the field where they are strong, making laws and rules as the (in their piss cockroach opinion) dominant apes in the crowd. They are breaking the technical possibility for you to avoid that. They don't see a problem with breaking it for everyone, because if some use they need as well is broken so, they can make an exception for themselves, it's in the domain of making rules too, and they can make punishments so gruesome that nobody will bother except for mafia and law enforcement, just like with heroine.

And the answer doesn't lie in protecting VPNs or making technical means to avoid them further, by using plentiful possible information channels in the standards comprising the Internet. The answer lies in dipping them face into their own shit and saying "don't do that again or I will kill you". Because it's a social, not technical, problem. It can be reduced to unauthorized people telling you what to do and you obeying.

well, ultimately too many lawmakers, elected or not are "let them eat cake" people. Living in their own world, uncaring and unknowing about things they rule over. Too many are likely there for their own hubris, thinking how they are so excellent that they must deserve to be there and maybe to line their own pockets. Though obviously there are some that are genuinely competent, otherwise the whole thing would come crashing down too fast, but they are most likely quite suppressed in favor of the pieces of shit that care only about their own interests.

They COULD have consulted people who know about this, considered extensively if its good idea to do this or not and maybe even explain themselves why its necessary without resorting to propaganda and lies, such as how this is to "save the children". But they do not, because they dont care and they dont have to care.

You can do whatever you want on i2p. Nobody knows who you are.

So, I won't be able to VPN into my university's network right?

If this passes I will simply add Wisconsin to my growing list of banned US states from accessing my website. That's assuming it's not already on there.

Anyone know how to get started with Tor?

My IT experience is fading fast so can anyone explain this bit?

block the access of users connected via VPN

I'm running a Digital Ocean droplet on the other side of the Pond with my own, static IP. How could a site detect I'm using a VPN? Imgur blocks me if it's on. How do they know?!

Hey, I have a GREAT idea. Let's ban cryptography. Then the cards will all be on the table. Fair and just!