you’re being way too pessimistic about this. governments have been trying to block access to information online for decades, and it’s never been successful. even if a future like you imagine comes to pass, VPNs don’t need to be commercial, and they can also be peer-to-peer. if it gets anywhere as bad you think it will, we’ll see a wider adoption of tech like I2P and local mesh networks, or people running their own shadow VPNs with their friends. it’s one thing for them to go after mullvad or proton or whatever big VPN you like, but it’s another thing entirely to squash private VPNs that people can already put up with very little effort. especially since they would have no idea they even exist.
you should absolutely fight censorship like this, but don’t ever think that them passing legislation is the end of the fight. it’s only the beginning, and there are millions more of us than there are of them.
you’re being way too pessimistic about this. governments have been trying to block access to information online for decades, and it’s never been successful. even if a future like you imagine comes to pass, VPNs don’t need to be commercial, and they can also be peer-to-peer. if it gets anywhere as bad you think it will, we’ll see a wider adoption of tech like I2P and local mesh networks, or people running their own shadow VPNs with their friends. it’s one thing for them to go after mullvad or proton or whatever big VPN you like, but it’s another thing entirely to squash private VPNs that people can already put up with very little effort. especially since they would have no idea they even exist.
you should absolutely fight censorship like this, but don’t ever think that them passing legislation is the end of the fight. it’s only the beginning, and there are millions more of us than there are of them.