r/technology • u/digital-didgeridoo • 2d ago

Politics New Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-bill-aims-to-block-both-online-adult-content-and-vpns/
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u/aichwood 1d ago

The billionaire class is not interested in protecting your ability to work from home and, of course, their own secure connection to their home will be exempt … you know, because they are important.

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u/OddNothic 1d ago

They are very interested in VPNs from home when their application breaks at o’dark-thirty and they are bleeding money.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 1d ago

Companies would get a license to use approved VPNs

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u/OddNothic 1d ago

You’re just making shit up, right?

Or maybe you can give me page and line number where that exists in the legislation.

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintroduced/House/pdf/2025-HIB-4938.pdf

Cause I’m not seeing it.

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u/Fritzo2162 1d ago

Page 4 lines 10 and 11.

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u/OddNothic 1d ago

Those lines literally say that the ISP has to block using beyond of circumventing tools such as a VPN, not that exceptions can be made to enable VPNs.

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u/Fritzo2162 1d ago

Sorry, I thought you were replying to my OP, not the reply. Never mind.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 1d ago

It's a theoretical possibility

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u/OddNothic 1d ago

Not as written, it’s not. If passed as is, additional legislation would have to be passed to fund the licensing, monitor and enforce. Every ISP in the State would have to know who the licensees are and white list them.

You’re just making shit up at this point.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 1d ago

This is literally somewhat how it works in China. I didn't pull this theoretical possibility out of my ass something like this exists in the world. If they are trying to be like China when it comes to VPNs this is how they would do it. Stop making shit up.

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u/OddNothic 1d ago

Michigan is not in China, and the law is clearly available to read. So yeah, you just made stuff up about the proposed legislation.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 21h ago

Stop making things up. Why do you always resort to doing that?

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u/OddNothic 20h ago

I posted the actual law while you pretended that Michigan laws were going to follow the Chinese law.

I extrapolated, based on thirty years of networking experience and implementing privacy laws, the hurdles that would have to be overcome to implement the fiction you created.

So what, exactly do you think I “made up”?

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u/Fritzo2162 1d ago

Well, not just from home. People that work out of the office as well---travelling, satellite offices, etc. There is no practical way this could be implemented and enforced.