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Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

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295 points AndrewDucker | 3 comments | 27 Aug 25 20:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.621s | source
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trhway ◴[27 Aug 25 20:49 UTC] No.45045053[source]▶
it is just a new better Internet era - everybody to use VPN. Thanks to the conservatives for facilitating such a progress.

For example, these days in Russia awareness and usage of VPN is well beyond any normal country. With Facebook and IG for example blocked for Meta being officially branded an "extremist organization" (by the way Taliban was taken off that list recently, so what do you guys in Menlo Park are cooking what is worse than Taliban? May be some freedom of speech? :) people in Russia of all strata is still using it, now through VPN, many from mobile devices. The thing of note from USSR/Russia here is that habitual violation of unreasonable laws breeds wide disrespect for the system of law as a whole, and it i very hard to reverse the flow.

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1. jmclnx ◴[27 Aug 25 21:57 UTC] No.45045835[source]▶
True, but the next thing, will VPNs be forced to age verify eventually ?

It is possible some US States and maybe the UK will end up like China.

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2. trhway ◴[27 Aug 25 22:15 UTC] No.45046011[source]▶
>True, but the next thing, will VPNs be forced to age verify eventually ?

it is like age verifying current generic access to the Internet. Sure, we'll come to this too (the anti-utopias aren't fiction, it is future :), yet we still don't verify such a generic access because it isn't the time yet, the society isn't yet totalitarian enough.

As a preview - in Russia (i'm less familiar with China to comment on it) they do already attack VPN by making it illegal to advertise it, something like this.

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3. int_19h ◴[27 Aug 25 23:31 UTC] No.45046570[source]▶
Russia is doing quite sophisticated technological enforcement, as well - even if you're running your own VPN server, you need something like V2Ray or Trojan to get through.