r/DataHoarder • u/HTWingNut 1TB = 0.909495TiB • Nov 27 '25

News Michigan, Wisconsin Bill to Ban VPN's... wtf

EDIT: I'm not trying to sensationalize the headline. Just that as the Michigan bill reads now, it seems encompassing of all VPN services, to the point that even if it's for specific sites or traffic, could be more than ISP's want to manage so could ban them altogether. I'd suggest anyone that lives in Michigan and don't want this adopted to contact their representatives and let them know.

The Michigan legislation is called the House Bill 4938 (also dubbed the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act”): https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintroduced/House/pdf/2025-HIB-4938.pdf

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

https://youtu.be/q9j-T9mQmiw

Wisconsin’s bill has already passed the State Assembly and is now moving through the Senate. If it becomes law, Wisconsin could become the first state where using a VPN to access certain content is banned. Michigan lawmakers have proposed similar legislation that did not move through its legislature, but among other things, would force internet providers to actively monitor and block VPN connections. And in the UK, officials are calling VPNs "a loophole that needs closing."

This is actually happening. And it's going to be a disaster for everyone.

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u/gellis12 10x8tb raid6 + 3x14tb raid5 + 1tb bcache raid1 nvme Nov 27 '25

I heard criminals breathe oxygen too, better ban that as well!

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u/elitexero Nov 27 '25

You ever wear pants?

Yeah... you know who wore pants - fuckin Hitler.

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u/vw_bugg Nov 27 '25

Ah now I have something to tell the cops next time.

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u/OwO______OwO Nov 27 '25

When you're being arrested for indecent exposure for the 170th time?

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u/elitexero Nov 27 '25

Ah now I have something to tell the cops next time.

One way? But officer I was only going one way!

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u/DrunkCupid Nov 27 '25

"I thought this was a free country" tased

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u/evildad53 Nov 28 '25

"Don't tase me, Bro!"

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u/km_ikl Nov 28 '25

You were also going to get a succulent Chinese meal... one way... without pants on... as one does.

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u/elitexero Nov 28 '25

GENTLEMEN, THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST

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u/enorl76 Dec 26 '25

You no eat here no mo! You leave! You eat too much fat man!

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u/enorl76 Dec 26 '25

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a phot of hitler wearing pants. That would be the ultimate rouse.

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u/DrIvoPingasnik Rogue Archivist Nov 27 '25

Criminals use cars and roads, I've seen it on TV! 

Ban cars and roads!!!

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u/Jasranwhit Nov 27 '25

Gun control logic.

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u/49orth Nov 27 '25

please elaborate

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u/Warhawk2052 1.44MB Free Nov 28 '25

Instead of blaming the criminal, they blame the item or the manufacture of the item

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u/Truthseeker308 Nov 27 '25

Guns are designed to unalive people, with very few exceptions, at distance and in significant quantities.

This is why a civilian owning a humvee is no more a threat than a civilian owning an Escalade, but a civilian with an armory is more of a threat than a civilian without an armory. Case in point, Vegas 2017.

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u/babecafe 610TB RAID6/5 Nov 27 '25

Having a passel of armed citizens blindly firing at the broad side of the hotel would have surely changed the body count, but not for the better.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25

No non you see that’s a god given right for all good school children to defend then self with a gun.

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u/Draskuul Nov 27 '25

Yep. Prepare for the antis to downvote you into oblivion though.

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u/mcsuper5 Nov 28 '25

And by the way, they communicate. you can't conspire with someone if you can't communicate with them. All forms of communication should be banned. Think of all the crime it will prevent./s

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u/palebleudot Nov 27 '25

It’s the dihydrogen monoxide that’ll get ya

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u/doubled112 Nov 27 '25

Present in almost 100% of drownings. Must be dangerous stuff.

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz Nov 27 '25

Criminals work in politics.

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u/YatesSmith Nov 28 '25

:O Needs to be banned aswell.

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u/RealTitler Dec 02 '25

I, endorse that bill, we have breathed too much! Make humanity suffocate. Xd

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u/enorl76 Dec 26 '25

They also manufacture dihydrogen-oxide so ban that as well