Laws don't apply to corporations. It'll only be used to punish individuals.
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replyThere is nothing in this article that suggests the UK government are planning to ban VPNs.
replyThere is lots in the article that suggests they want to ban them for minors though. How the hell is that supposed to work without at a minimum a severe curtailment of VPNs in general?
replySo no, not a ban for all. A ban for minors, and a severe curtailment in general. The parent post might not be 100% accurate, but it's close.
The government use VPNs. The ban will target individual use.
replyIt's not about a technical capability to encapsulate packets, it's about whether people use it to bypass censorship or not.
replyA lot of corporations use crappy VPN-like MitM services like Zscaler.
replyIt would not be hard to write laws to restrict one use but not the other. They may be the same tech but the use-cases are quite different.
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