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Could VPNs Be 'Banned'?
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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2025
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VPN technology will never be banned, as most companies rely on it heavily, e.g. for remote work. The only thing I could see is ISPs keeping a blacklist of known addresses of commercial VPN providers, but that seems like an uphill battle
Companies like Akamai already do this to an extent. My employer is an Akamai customer, and they’ve offered this service to us in the past when we saw a lot of malicious traffic originating from commercial VPN providers.
A company can run their own VPN server. A third party need not be involved. The commercial VPN service providers can therefore be blocked by government without affecting those businesses.
Yes. By 'VPN technology' I mean e.g. wireguard, openVPN, which are infeasible to ban since companies probably use the same software stack.
I don't know what a software "stack" is but government can packet sniff to see if that kind of software is used but the vendors in this cat and mouse game apparently can sometimes fool the packet sniffers.
China cannot block all VPN's so it is looking good for us geeks. However we need to educate the masses.
Well that's kind of the earlier point, the working masses already know. What they might not understand is that they can use a VPN outside of the office and how it benefits them.
There are already (crappy) ip blocklists available specifically for retail VPN providers. They don't include corporate vpn providers because capitalism. Anonymizing VPN services have limited IP blocks that are easily tracked.