This is the important take.

The other poster that claims that “this will never pass”, hopefully is thinking of this. Without this consideration - I believe it would. Right wing has been trying any method to impose their sense of morality onto a free society since before I was born. I grew up in a household that actively worked to suppress pornography through local, state, and federal law. I saw this at work.

Even more, it also bans all tunnelling and proxy technology. SSH, and even TLS would become illegal in Michigan.

That's not how they'd implement it. They'd make it illegal to sell it advertise VPNs to the public. Then they'd impose fines on any American VPN companies that did it, and IP block and foreign VPN providers (their websites and apps) that didn't.

Corporate VPNs wouldn't be targeted. But you're probably not going to watch porn through your work's VPN right?

Also the government must be using VPNs

I'd love to think you're right but there are bills in blue states for age verification too. It's nice to think that partisan politics will kill it in Michigan...and maybe it will but this is so much more than a one party problem IMO. Both parties seem complicit.

Whitmer is only governor through 2026. Dems still have their primaries to rally behind a candidate, and Detroit's mayor, Dan Gilbert, is running independent.

I appreciate your view on this. Just because something won't pass doesn't mean it isn't cause for concern.

Also force any companies who rely on VPNs to move out of the state, further decimating their tax base.

I wonder if an MPLS circuit would fall under the category of VPN for the purposes of this proposed law lol.

Also good fucking luck, anyone could just proxychains through an AWS ec2 or anything else they have ssh access to in order to get out of Michigan, then send the traffic through whatever VPN they want at that point.

If I VPN into another state then it's interstate commerce and then they can't regulate it.

They don't care about porn, it's a gateway to restrict vpn ownership countrywide and take anonymity away from users.

If that were true, Nonce Trump would have never made crypto, and TOR would have never existed.

This is plain old Heimtückegesetz at play. Stop illusionary truth effecting the threadiverse.

Ita 6 republicans pushing a bill that will never pass the senate or the governor.