It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.
They will ban VPNs for everyone except corporations who can pay a
bribefee for an encryption license. It will only be the little people who will not be allowed to encrypt their communications. And you won’t be able to ignore the law and do it anyway on your phone, because your only options are Google and Apple, and both reserve the right to decide which developers get to distribute their software. (Google will be introducing this restriction next year.) The availability of open operating systems for computers is a situation lawmakers will no doubt want to rectify at some point.Actually, having just read the article they are not banning vpn at all. (Bad title)
They are mandating that sites that subjectively provide sexual content ban traffic that comes from a vpn.
Both corpo and private networks are fine.
I am not sure how enforceable this is. It might be limited to a “known list of vpn providers ip addresses” but how they ever know if you have a personal server running overseas?
Wikipedia bans from editing addresses from known VPNs.