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It depends on how the law is implemented.
If simply connecting to a VPN is illegal, then your ISP could rat you out. They can't tell what you are doing, but they can see a bunch of encrypted traffic between you and a VPN server.
Such a law would prohibit Cloudflare's entire business model. That interpretation will never survive the courts.
You good sir underestimate the stupidity of courts
The courts understand money. A handful of state legislators can't throw nearly as much money at such a case as the big names in tech. Therefore, big tech wins.
Wrong end for most of us. It's not that we live in a backward-state where VPNs are illegal, it's that companies that want to do business in the state will have to block ALL users coming in through a VPN, regardless of where you live. They know which users are using a VPN because the IP blocks are well known, and they will just have to block those users. That's why this one state is trying to f- over everyone.
That makes more sense and is...even worse tbh because that's actually enforceable and so obvious I don't know how I missed it. That would also probably impact Tor since those IPs are already heavily reputation damaged. The stuff governments have been pulling recently is just insane