Head of Russia’s Human Rights Council admits banning VPNs is “impossible”

Attempting to block all VPNs would disrupt businesses and banks

The official still condemned citizens using VPNs to access blocked media

  • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 hours ago

    A vpn is (basically) just a connection between two computers where they can interact with each other as if they were physically connected to the same local network (ergo, “Virtual Private Network”). That’s not possible to ban. They can go after commercial providers, but not the concept itself.