With a lot of talk from governments around the world trying to either ban or restrict VPNs, I’m curious to know what are our options if they follow through? I know we can use the Tor network, but is there other options? I assume we could self-host our VPN since I don’t think it would be affected by a possible ban. Is there a less tech-savvy option I’m not aware of? I’m just trying to understand all of my options just in case a ban does happen.
The effectively can’t ban VPNs and even if such an absolutely ludicrous law were to be passed, VPN traffic can still be hidden to appear as normal traffic. It’s all bullshit bluster from idiots who have no understanding of how technology works at all. VPNs are absolutely vital to the function of businesses and institutions, banning them would be an absolute disaster for everyone but criminals who make money from stealing data and maybe dictators (though they’d still be screwing themselves over in the long run).
On the one hand, I know it’s bullshit and they would just break the tools that a.) everyone uses, including themselves, and b.) it just brings even more chaos and will not solve the problems that they think. On the other hand, I feel they just don’t give a shit and want to go through because they know that enough people will probably just give up and accept it, which will lead lawmakers to continue with these surveillance tatics because they’ll believe people are ok with it. I don’t think it’s going to work, but I feel we are at a point where they just don’t care and will push on through with some way to damage VPNs. I apologize if I’m coming off pessismistic, but’s hard to try to be positive when it’s not one country, but many countries that want to restict or ban VPNs and this just part of the plan to dismantle privacy. We’ll see what happens in the coming months.