Can Governments block VPNs/TOR and is there a risk they will?

[GeorgeWashingtoff]

The UK has passed something called the Online Harms Safety Bill, supposedly to protect children but it's probably because the Gov can't stand the idea of a free internet where adults can click a mouse and see porn anytime they want.

This summer, porn sites are to implement age verification for British users or be blocked by the British Gov. Obviously easily workaround by using a VPN and setting it to any developed country apart from Britain. It's clear most of the politicians who supported the bill have no idea what VPNs even are. I understand some US states are already doing this.

My question is once everyone starts using a VPN and the boomer politicians who are shit with computers finally catch on, will they start to write and support a bill for VPNs to be blocked? Is this possible? If the Gov of your country orders ISPs to block VPNs and TOR does that mean they've won with no way around it and the only way to see digital boobs would be to do their age verification thing and have your name on the perv database?

 

[Cat tit bingo]

For the US tor will never get banned by the government because there the fucking people behind it. They didn't make it but the vast majority of its funding has always come from the US government so that they can use it to spy on people. Maybe that will give other countrys more reason to ban it but for the US tor is safe, if they wont shut it down over millions of dollars in drug trade and horrific CP trades there sure as fuck not going to do it for bypassing some porn ban

 

[dick brain]

For the US tor will never get banned by the government because there the fucking people behind it. They didn't make it but the vast majority of its funding has always come from the US government so that they can use it to spy on people. Maybe that will give other countrys more reason to ban it but for the US tor is safe, if they wont shut it down over millions of dollars in drug trade and horrific CP trades there sure as fuck not going to do it for bypassing some porn ban

In general it's a good heuristic to assume that communication services that market themselves to criminals and political dissidents are honeypots for criminals and political dissidents. You're better off using discord on a burner than telegram on a vpn.

Or so I'm told.