[dwedge]

This "they'll just use a vpn" argument is infuriating to me because it's being used to downplay intrusive laws and make them more palatable. The obvious next step (the UK already hinted at it after the online safety act) is forcing VPNs to do ID verification.

[knollimar]

if anything, the "they'll just use a vpn" is an argument for the other way.

Law has privacy downsides and is trivially bypassable -> law is bad.

[throw-the-towel]

And then, blocking the VPNs that don't comply, Russia style. (If you're sure It Can't Happen Here,[0] you're part of the problem.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here