With the recent proliferation of laws in America and around the world to block and censor websites, some people have turned to what are called VPN's - virtual private networks - to access banned sites. This is actually a step down. It used to be that there were free proxy servers to get around blocks that might exist, but most of today's VPN's charge a steep subscription fee. A post from 2018 - before the runaway stagflation of the 2020s - says a VPN cost $273 per year.
But now even zillionaires aren't safe.
Utah has just passed a new law making it illegal for websites to provide instructions on how to use a VPN.
This violates the First Amendment, of course. It's not as if the underlying ban on websites - which is what has prompted the instructions to be posted in the first place - doesn't also violate it.
But hey, who's counting?
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