I know governments work slow but these guys are still trying to figure out if freeing the slaves was a good idea.

Sounds like a good time to deploy a bunch of small raspberry pi vpn nodes at local libraries and other free wifi spots. I don’t know enough about ip to know if they can track you past that first hop

IPv4 over ICMP echo packets

pingfs: a filesystem backed by ICMP

"Legislators Want to Ban the Internet"

Well, no, it wouldn't. The bods that make these decisions still live like it's 1950 and dream of an authoritarian future of masters and slaves.

What good is The Google or The AI when you're sipping champagne up an ivory tower or out on the ocean being waited on hand and foot on a gleaming yacht?

It will just be a few approved sites that you are allowed to visit, and just by chance those sites are the ones that pay the goverment the most! Those sites will have records in the approved DNS, that you can not change. Other DNS requests are blocked, along with everything else that isn't approved.

That's basically any modern network. There is no more trivial "inside our network" vs. "outside on the internet". Networks are segmented on a need-to-know principle. You can access some information from the public internet. Some other things can be accessed from the internet, but only on corporate devices, if your user AND device is whitelisted. And then you have one or more VPNs on top of that for more sensitive stuff. Also those VPNs may be "dynamic" in the sense that it may also be dependent on the user, device and authentication method what is currently accessible over that VPN connection.

Also schools. My kids state issued laptops use vpns to connect to the schools networks as well as in a true irony limit what sites they can access.

It's actually so limiting it's nearly impossible to print the required assignments on a printer in our home but that's a different rant.

s/blocking access/releasing the viewing history of/

They might be using onlyfans

TOR Wikipedia page - explains the key concepts and gives a link to the website so you can download the Tor Browser.

Tails (Amnesiac OS) Wikipedia page - If you want the real Fort Knox solution to browsing something or sending something without anyone finding out. It's more of a process than downloading Tor Browser, but probably the most secure option possible for browsing the web. (The OS runs everything through the TOR network, is only retained in RAM, and wipes the RAM clean during shutdown)

Next on the list for a ban. They came for my neighbors ID, and I said nothing, then they came for my neighbors VPN, and an I did nothing, and now they are coming for me on I2P, and there is no one left to speak for me...

I thought L2P was just for torrents. How do I use it with my internet connection? Does it cost money?

Generally, they know you're using a VPN because of where your traffic is coming from.

They probably block Digital Ocean's IP pool as a whole as it's often a hub for cybercrime and it would only affect a fraction of users.

Ok, so basically when your computer uses a VPN it just connects to a VPN server over the Internet using an encrypted TCP/IP or UDP/IP connection. On your computer side all your connections to the Internet just get shoved into that encrypted tunel instead of going directly into the whole wide world from your own network connection - so nobody but that server sees those connections - whilst on the VPN server side they're recieved from that encrypted tunel and then exit to the whole wide world from that VPN server as if they're connections initiated by that server not by your own machine, so to the whole world they look like connections coming from the VPN server machine.

Nations with nation-wide firewalls can try and block VPN by blocking the actual encrypted network connections to VPN servers (there are ways to recognize those, but there also ways to disguise them), but for websites to block them (which is what this legislation demands) the websites have to block the actual VPN servers since the websites can only see connections to them which seem to originate in those servers, not traffic elsewhere on the Internet such as the encrypted connections from VPN customers to VPN servers.

Now, there are lists of the IP addresses of the exist points of VPN providers, which are the IP addresses were the traffic of somebody using that VPN enters the Internet, so to try to comply with this legislation those sites would start by blocking all traffic from any of those IP addresses - remember those websites don't know were the traffic coming from a VPN server to that website really comes from, so they can't tell traffic from people in Wisconsin from traffic from people elsewhere hence have to block everything to catch everybody from Winsonsin.

This would affect everybody anywhere in the World using those exit points of those VPN providers since those sites can't really tell where exactly in the World is somebody whose traffic is coming from those VPN exit points.

Then there's the problem that the legislation applies to all VPNs, not just commercial VPN providers, meaning that the websites would also theoretically have to block VPN servers from business VPNs (and given how the networks of many large companies work, that might mean blocking the entire company) as well as thing like schools using VPNs and, even more entertaining, VPNs set up by individuals by, for example, renting a Virtual Private Server and installing a Linux there running their own VPN server or even installing the VPN server software on something like Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, which mean they might have to block every single IP address of any provider of VPS servers anywhere in the World (as any Wisconsian could, theoretically, over the Internet rent a chea VPS in, say, Malasia, and install a Linux with a VPS server there) as well as of all AWS and Azure servers since again any Wisconsian could theoretically run their own personal VPS server there.

So this legislation is totally insane in several ways.

It's not the logs or the data which they would be monitoring with an encrypted no-logs VPN. What they would be monitoring, presumably, would be the fact that you are using a VPN at all. That's also what they would be trying to block. They might try to block it by interfering with access to certain ports or blocking certain IP addresses, but there would be limits. Even China can't stop all VPN traffic to get around its firewalls.

They'd have to exclude sanctioned VPN traffic, or the entire financial system doesn't work at all.