VPN Users Risk 20-Year Jail Sentences in the US Under New RESTRICT Act

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https://beincrypto.com/vpn-users-risk-20-year-jail-sentences-us-restrict-act/

Essentially, it intends to scrutinize a long list of communications technologies. These include web hosting, cloud services, content delivery services, drones, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce.
The bill specifically directs the Secretary of Commerce to “identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate, or otherwise mitigate” national security risks associated with technology linked to countries adversarial to the U.S.

VPN Users Risk 20-Year Jail Sentences in the US Under New RESTRICT Act

A bill dubbed the 'RESTRICT' act was submitted to Congress and could have severe consequences for VPN users in the United States.

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[I Walk MY Way]

The land of the free and the home of the brave, how far they have fallen,

 

[Trooper]

This Restrict Act is insanity.

 

[Dave Russo]

Guess there gonna build more jails

 

[Zero Knowledge]

Never going to happen. No one is getting 20 years for using a Vpn. That's just clickbait trash. Tor on the other hand I can see that sometime in the future that they do block access to it at the ISP level and they will/might impose penalties for using it.

The only thing saving E2EE and Tor at the moment is that they are dual use technologies, the good guys use them same as the bad guys use them. Otherwise, they would be banned like China or Russia does with those technologies it can't censor or carry out surveillance on citizens.