I am not a US citizen or an expert in law, so my questions are:
- Do you think this RESTRICT act that will potentially ban VPN use will be passed?
- Is the restriction only applied to those who use Tiktok or general use?
- Corporates also use some kind of internal VPN, is this included in the ban?
- How much dumber the gov is trying to be?

https://beincrypto.com/vpn-users-ri...

well the gov is the one who funds Tor. And they need users to be invisible

it's the struggle of a declining hegemon
This will simply accelerate it and other countries will decouple further

So if you aren't a US citizen, shouldn't affect you much (unless your company deals with advertising to TikTok for companies based in US, or the sorts)

@joewilliams007

I checked out Tor project page just to confirm your statement. Don't think it's right that specific gov funds the org. Many of the sponsors and supporters are national and international org. I assume that any decision related to Tor development should be based on community discussion and ideally should be neutral. So it's not really depend on just one or two orgs/nations.

Unless you can share the source that can support your statement.

It is shitty legislation as far as I can tell. It will be used to harm anyone they see fit. Just like the Patriot Act.

@azuredivay

The problem is, once the US release this law, it's just a matter of time when other countries will start to follow (looking at you EU!)

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I think it's already getting a lot of negative press and they'll probably publicly change the most egregious things but privately stick some more bad shit into it.

Now is a good time for them to try to sneak it through because there's other things going on to distract people.

I expect it will pass in some form and it won't be good.

@spongessuck They often do bad bill and good bill. Create a really shitty bill. It gets struck down. Sneak in a less shitty, but still shitty bill. Of course it will be harder now that they cannot stuff a shit ton of stuff into a bill. The bills have to be specific now.