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What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?
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The laws are entirely stupid (as in written by people that have no clue).
The ones I see do not make using a VPN illegal, they make it illegal for certain websites to receive traffic from VPNs.
As a website, how am I supposed to know if I am receiving traffic from a VPN?
I have to maintain a database of restricted IP addresses? How do I keep that up-to-date? How do I catch small players? Self-hosted stuff?
And even if I do all that, how do I tell where the actual user is? Because that is exactly what VPNs were designed to hide from me. So, I cannot apply it to residents of a state—I have to refuse VPN connections from the entire world.
It is impossible and pointless. Anybody actually doing anything wrong will get around it easily. So all it accomplishes is reducing the security and increasing the hassle for everybody else.
Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.