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A New Bill Aims to Ban Both Adult Content Online and VPN Use. Could It Work?
CNET ^ | October 20, 2025 | Tyler Lacoma

Posted on 10/20/2025 7:44:46 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark

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To: higgmeister

Ha! I didn’t even think about that. Yup. Kids will find what they want to find. At any tech level.


41 posted on 10/20/2025 1:01:15 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

This is just “we can’t track you” and we want to.


42 posted on 10/20/2025 1:12:47 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Secure access to a websites, via HTTPS, is pretty much a temporary VPN: all traffic to and from the website during the session is encrypted.

Banning this would destroy financially secure web commerce, and any remaining online privacy. (Not to mention being able to intercept and change ordinary web traffic into whatever you want, including pornography.)

And if HTTPS is not banned, it’s easy enough to build VPNs on top of HTTPS.

Are these politicians really that clueless?


43 posted on 10/20/2025 3:07:39 PM PDT by powerset
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