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Banning encryption proved infeasible, so they just switched to programs like PRISM instead. That was very successful.


Let me explain a bit further:governments lost the battle to ban code. Since then, no code can really get banned. And, nowadays we have vetted p2p VPNs even if all world govs try to ban vpn companies, and no prism or quantum computing programs can bypass their post-quantum e2e implementation.


Code is already banned by anti-circumvention laws.¹ I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard, legislatively, to have VPNs classified as a tool for circumventing "digital locks."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#Distributio...




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