[PittsburghAfterDark]

I really cannot stand the stupidity of politicians, especially Republican politicians, not knowing the consequences of what they propose.

No one is losing any sleep over someone eating strawberries on a close up video with a high gain microphone nearby.

I'm far more worried about not having VPN access and what the government could do because of that then someone watching Brazillian fart porn (South Park reference, does such a thing even exist???)

[Kleon]

I would also include a ban on “bot torrent” which is used to spread a lot of this illegal material.

[Tell It Right]

Banning VPN’s does sound scary. Both from the free speech aspect, especially with the Dims wanting to ban “misinformation”, and from wanting to engage in financial transactions with less chance of being hacked.

[Salman]

Banning VPS will hurt the financial industry.

Or will the big players be exempt.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

No more German scheisse videos? (Another South Park reference.)

[Zathras]

I’m pretty sure you can’t ban VPNs.

[Frank Drebin]

They don’t give one damn about the adult part...they are after the VPN.

[BikerJoe]

I'm far more worried about not having VPN access and what the government could do because of that

Agreed. Plus the little issue of VPNs being ubiquitous in the corporate security world, and for industrial equipment, and, and, and...

Anybody proposing this doesn't have a CLUE about the real-world consequences.

[ro_dreaming]

(South Park reference, does such a thing even exist???)

Rule 34, or Rule 34(a), if you think of it, then, at some point, porn exists of it.

[Ge0ffrey]

Pornography is the scourge of the West. It is singularly responsible for the breakdown of family and morality. It needs to be banished from our homes as it was banished from 42nd Street in Manhattan.

[nuke_road_warrior]

Government censorship is an anathema to the Constitution whether from the left or the right. Just exactly who gets to determine what is “adult” content? I suspect these “defenders of public morals” would find leftist ideas as offensive as the leftists find MAGA philosophy. Of course banning VPNs would, in their little pea brains, prevent circumvention of their ban on “adult” content as they see it.

[libertylover]

I hate it when they use non-common acronyms and don’t define their meaning.

[larrytown]

This is a proposed bill?

So, it’s just posturing by some political faction in order to be used as a litmus test for certain voting group.

The corporate universe that exists on VPN’s would destroy any attempt to try to push this idiocy.

This isn’t even good for ‘government conspiracy’ fans, as it’s just too stupid to be taken seriously.

[FreedomPoster]

They’ll take my VPN software from my cold dead fingers.

And if it didn’t exist before South Park referenced it, someone went out and made some, almost certainly, sadly.

Just damn.

[MayflowerMadam]

Terrible idea!!

Government overreach to the max.

[discostu]

What an amazing quantity of bad ideas all rolled into one. Work from home can’t exist without VPN. Also multi-site businesses are made much easier that way. And of course all the security guys say we should always VPN for security. And really, how are you going to stop us. These guys are more obsessed with porn than the worst porn addicts, and apparently will to demand their whole state roll back to 1980s technology to deal with it.

[pierrem15]

Laws proposed by morons for the benefit of cretins.

Absolutely unenforceable and most of it is a 1st Amendment violation. It's like saying "No brown paper wrapping on packages," and just as stupid.

I've setup many of my own VPNs running on servers I lease. You could just have a "VPN" club and a bunch of people doing the same, even if commercial vendors stop selling in MI.

[alexander_busek]

But people could still express their ideas, share their opinions, or simply communicate with each other - without government supervision - by writing on paper!

Obviously, we need better paper control laws.

Regards,

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Making VPNs illegal would be like making it illegal to close your window blinds.

[sockmonkey]

Whoa, this idea needs to die a quick death.

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

I use VPN to get information from other nations. I think it shouldn’t be passed, because it seems UNCONSTITUNIONAL!!