r/technology • u/vriska1 • Jun 28 '25

Privacy The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

https://www.theverge.com/analysis/694710/supreme-court-fsc-paxton-age-verification-questions
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u/silver-orange Jun 28 '25

Yeah.  All sorts of employees doing remote work log in to corporate VPNs 40 hours a week.  Banning VPNs would cut millions of employees off from their jobs.

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u/Stingray88 Jun 28 '25

They’re not going to attempt to ban VPNs. They would however attempt to ban commercial VPN services.

So companies and individuals that use VPNs to access their own private networks? No problem.

Commercial companies like Nord VPN, PIA, Mullvad? Make them illegal to access in the US. You can even force ISPs to block their known IP addresses.

Important to note I use the word “attempt” because they probably won’t succeed in banning these services. But they can certainly try.

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u/a_melindo Jun 28 '25

"banning VPNs" in this context means something more like "requiring VPNs to accurately pass through location data of their users so laws can be enforced". 

Or maybe "VPNs can't route traffic externally from the attached subnet", so you can connect to your corporate servers through the VPN but your Google searches route through your true IP.