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The currently proposed "Online Safety Bill" will potentially put significant limits or ban VPNs. I suspect (if it passes) it will be a case of VPNs that don't collect ICRs will be band, or at least prohibited from payment services, in the UK.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/15101/

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At least it would be difficult to enforce such things, with cryptocurrencies and all. I wonder if governments will try to convince their citizens that all VPN users are criminals and pedophiles as an excuse to make their use illegal, using it as prima facie evidence of wrongdoing in police investigations as a means of increasing the state of terror, surveillance, and control over their populations.

The UK already has a law that allows them to imprison you if you genuinely don't remember an encryption key and they don't believe you.

Just wait till they introduce a law that allows them to imprison people for using a VPN to get around some bs accusation and they don't believe your defense.

It's more likely they'll mandate that ISPs block traffic to popular VPN services

Harder to ban Tor outright. No payments and snowflake bridges run on many (often) residential IPs.

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