Dear Government. Quit trying to turn the Internet into 1980s cable TV. There's a lot of us out here using it for its original purpose instead shopping and watching Netflix.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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So employees that use a company VPN to access company files between offices are now breaking the law?
What about personal vpns that people setup to access their home devices, like a smart home setup or home security camera? Illegal as well?
Step 1: rent a $5 VPS anywhere outside of us government control.
Step 2: set up a multi-hop tunnel through said VPS using glutun and wireguard.
You are now immune to this bullshit.
Lmao
Looks at the 99% who can't afford a VPS
You're forgetting the most important thing
avg comes with one. pita, sometimes it turns it on when i don't want to use it. I used to mess around with it because I got avg because my phone kept getting hacked and I was like this thing comes with a vpn!!!!!!!! whaaaaaaat but tbh I have no use for t so I don't even use it.
ngl though, if i went out of the country and needed to access paypal instead of using zelle, id use it, other than that, it's annoying when i do a virus scan and it gets turned on after.
Don’t use or trust avg
They can be found for less than $20 a month. They're on par with 1-2 streaming services you can drop.
For some people that really need that, even less than one dollar is too much. $20 is basically matter of life or death.
I know, a VPS is nothing and running wireguard in a docker container takes 3 minutes.
You can build a psuedo VPN with as little as ssh + squid on a VPS. Tunnel your web traffic over ssh to a proxy on the VPS.
Remember when piracy was shrinking and Netflix was cheap and had a good deal of content?
Ah well, if only we can figure out what changed.
I guess we'll instead try prohibiting VPNs, when something is in demand.. prohibiting it always works great with zero unintended consequences.
When you only needed Netflix. Not Netflix, Hulu, Disney, HBO, Paramount, peacock, starz, apple, Amazon prime... I mean, I think most of us are fine paying for content. But, streaming has become at least as expensive as cable used to be.
Other P2P networks too.
Long live to Soulseek, eMule/ed2k, IPFS, Iroh, Retroshare, Tox and the like.
Is Overnet or iMesh or Bearshare or Frostwire still around?
Honestly idk, but I hope they'd were.
It's almost as if the piracy is not actually why, or not the primary reason, they want to take total control of the internet
Not enforceable, what will they do about offshore VPNs? Many major VPN companies are already based outside of the US
It's messy.
At this very moment, it would be very hard to enforce.
In the spirit of what they're trying to do, I worry they'll modify the law "ISPs are required to do state-full inspection of all traffic and block anything questionable."
You might say, that's not doable, what about SSL? ISP's enforce a MITM cert. Bluecoat has devices that have done this for years. Essentially dismantle internet security altogether. HSTS? Not if the feds so no. If they're mandated by law the ISPs would comply and we'd not be left with any other opportunity.
But what if it's encrypted below that level? Easy, Block. If your business needs VPN, they register their endpoint and provide backdoor keys/logs.
We're not there. Not by a long shot, but we're heading that way and they're pumping the gas as hard as they can.
None of this privacy we're enjoying is durable. Pushes in the US, UK, AUS and other places are trying to dismantle it.
If we don't put up a fight, we'd better start working a fuck of a lot harder on radio meshes.
They'll really do anything to avoid making a better product, huh?
Ah, the party of small government. :|
Aha! So they’re small enough to fit into the tubes to block your internet traffic! Ingenious!
So... they're gonna stop AI from doing it too... right?
No, specific IPs of AI companies are clear for doing this.
Incoming IP spoofs of OpenAI in 3, 2, 1...
Ya... I'm hosting an AI company from my $10k seed... It uhhhh focuses a lot on porn and tv.
Sounds valid to me. Everything has always started from porn, even AI.
AI company IPs about to not only be cleared but their traffic prioritised
Nothing like passing legislation to force a collection of international communications protocols to ban sites the state doesn’t like….
You thought I was the Great China's Firewall but it was me, the Tiny USA's Waterwall!
God forbid some asshole isnt allowed to make a buck, lets hand over all our rights and privacy for the bottom line.
And the worst part is that people will bow gracefully because convenience.
Good thing my DNS resolver and VPN aren't american then huh?
I wish I could buy the Chinese competitor to Starlink and use it just so I could break even further away from all the surveillance. I'd never be able to afford a visit to China so why would I care?
"Should we improve our services or at least stop screwing folks? Nah lets bribe the government"
They can't stop me. Who wants to join my private sharing network? Let's VPN it up.
These "small government conservatives" have been spineless for so long, it's hard to remember anyone ever made the claim!
I guess it's inevitable that the USA must copy China's approach to managing the internet... the existential crises are reaching a breaking point
Laughs in Tor VPN
Laughs in self-hosted WG VPN host.
Laughs in RPN
Make Domestic Piracy Great Again?
Can’t wait for this to get applied to every corporate site-to-site VPN, every remote worker, etc. My employer relies heavily on VPN services provided by AWS. I’d be willing to bet the number of corporate users of AWS VPN users would be enough to qualify for this.
How does one set up a system to only connect through tor?
Darrell Issa is and has been a miserable piece of shit for far too long.
So this would apply to all vpn servers in usa?
I’d love to see the USA try to demand DNS blocking be applied to random cloud servers in Sweden, Croatia, Brazil, etc.
MuricaNet
Cool story bro.
Right. Good luck with that.
I am not one bit concerned.
