Putin signs law that prohibits technology providing access to banned websites
Waiting for the &quot;can&#x27;t stop me using VPNs L0Lz&quot; comments..<p>VPN use for a free and open Internet is abnormal - not a long term solution to issues like censorship.<p>They&#x27;re already out of reach for normal users. Companies will offer better ways to block or detect usage for lucrative gov contracts. Simply making it illegal will detour most people.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why VPN crackdown is thought to be impossible. ISPs have a good idea of what normal traffic looks like and a very good map of the Internet. The Internet may be big. To an ISP, is it really that big? Netflix, Google, YouTube, Dropbox etc are normal. Your companies VPN IP are normal.<p>That&#x27;s unusual! Open connection to a DNS port? sending large amounts of data? its encrypted? No one has accessed that digital ocean IP before on this network! Lets throttle, interrupt it periodically or flag that user. Someone else sending large amounts data to a known VPN IP range? block, throttle, close connection, police knock on door etc.<p>policy change, not more VPNs.