[shakna]

Every corporate I know of, uses VPNs. Especially when workers connect from home. Is the UK government really interested in going up against the majority of their business partners...?

[kdheiwns]

Laws don't apply to corporations. It'll only be used to punish individuals.

[joe463369]

There is nothing in this article that suggests the UK government are planning to ban VPNs.

[gspr]

There is lots in the article that suggests they want to ban them for minors though. How the hell is that supposed to work without at a minimum a severe curtailment of VPNs in general?

So no, not a ban for all. A ban for minors, and a severe curtailment in general. The parent post might not be 100% accurate, but it's close.

[maccard]

The government use VPNs. The ban will target individual use.

[cassianoleal]

A lot of corporations use crappy VPN-like MitM services like Zscaler.

[inigyou]

It's not about a technical capability to encapsulate packets, it's about whether people use it to bypass censorship or not.

[rcxdude]

It would not be hard to write laws to restrict one use but not the other. They may be the same tech but the use-cases are quite different.