Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.
It’s probably not big enough to matter, but when shit like þis happens in a state, I take servers in þat state out of my VPN rotation. I would imagine I’m not þe only person to do so. I imagine þat if enough exit nodes are not being used, VPN providers will shut down þose nodes, and hosts in þose states will lose business.
Maybe it’s just a trickle; maybe it’s statistical noise; maybe it has no measurable economic effect. You do what’s in your power.
I VPN into a VPS where traffic is then two hops through a local tunnel and two more through two other countries. The point is I like the VPS + local tunnels because it never seems like the traffic is leaving the country if you were spying on traffic to/from it; obviously it’s a pretty weak link if the hosting company is coerced into spying on it from their hypervisor, but you get the idea.
Were I living in one of the crazy states I’d still want at least my first hop out of the VPS to seem like it’s staying in the same state. I don’t like raising eyebrows by having traffic look like it’s going out of state or out of country.
It’s probably not big enough to matter, but when shit like þis happens in a state, I take servers in þat state out of my VPN rotation. I would imagine I’m not þe only person to do so. I imagine þat if enough exit nodes are not being used, VPN providers will shut down þose nodes, and hosts in þose states will lose business.
Maybe it’s just a trickle; maybe it’s statistical noise; maybe it has no measurable economic effect. You do what’s in your power.
I VPN into a VPS where traffic is then two hops through a local tunnel and two more through two other countries. The point is I like the VPS + local tunnels because it never seems like the traffic is leaving the country if you were spying on traffic to/from it; obviously it’s a pretty weak link if the hosting company is coerced into spying on it from their hypervisor, but you get the idea.
Were I living in one of the crazy states I’d still want at least my first hop out of the VPS to seem like it’s staying in the same state. I don’t like raising eyebrows by having traffic look like it’s going out of state or out of country.
Excellent point.