How high can the adoption rate get before conglomerates gang together and convince our politicians that VPNs are evil something something think of the children something something
They are pretty critical to corporate IT.
I don’t think they can realistically be banned.
Maybe, they could make vpn businesses illegal, but then someone will just setup a vpn company in another country where it is legal.
Corporate VPNs don’t make it look like you’re in a third world country, though.
If I’m working for a megacorp in New York and I work from home, I would use a VPN on my company issued laptop to make the corp’s network think I’m on the intranet, and thus, it’s okay to serve me intranet resources and secure files. If I go to a location based site (such as Google Maps), I’ll still show up in New York, not Bumfuck Egypt.
I don’t think they’ll ban corporate VPNs. I think they will go after the privacy respecting ones, though. And if you’re a hobbyist using a VPN for your server and it’s not masking your location, I think that’s something that will be allowed. All these regional restrictions though, like on porn sites, I do think they will go after companies that let you defeat those restrictions.
I think the VPN companies think so, which is why they’re offering fire sales on 3-10 year plans. I don’t think they expect to have to provide the service for that long.
There’s no way they can implement a VPN ban without breaking every corporate network in the process.
