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Why US States Want to Ban Your VPN (And Why It Won't Work) | US states including Wisconsin (AB105/SB130) and Michigan are pushing to ban VPNs as part of age verification laws that compromise digital privacy for everyone. T... | odysee.com/@techlore:3/...
Why US States Want to Ban Your VPN (And Why It Won't Work)
US states including Wisconsin (AB105/SB130) and Michigan are pushing to ban VPNs as part of age verification laws that compromise digital privacy for everyone. This video explains why these bills are ...
odysee.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
quackersncheese.bsky.social
AB105/SB130 may pass the Wisconsin Senate today. If so it will most likely kick in age verification requirements for social media like Bluesky and restrict VPNs for Wisconsinites unless Gov Evers vetoes it.
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Wisconsin wants to force all adult sites to block VPNs – here's what we know
The bill has now landed in the Senate for consideration
www.techradar.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:05 PM
kendrawilsonnv.bsky.social
@battlebornprogress.bsky.social email today:

During the 2025 legislative session, Governor Joe Lombardo vetoed 87 bills — including three gun violence prevention measures: AB105, AB245, and SB89. These bills were based on policies that research shows can reduce gun deaths.
August 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM
battlebornprogress.bsky.social
WATCH NOW: Our press conference on today’s gun violence prevention bill hearings. Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui, Senator Julie Pazina, @bradyunited.org, and @silverstatevoices.bsky.social are speaking www.facebook.com/BattleBornPr... #nvleg #ab105 #ab245 #sb89
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March 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
judda.bsky.social
I just learned that my state of Wisconsin is attempting to ban VPNs through AB105 and SB130 thanks to this youtube video. Using the links in the video I've reached out to both my state representative and state senator to let them know my concerns with this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuLd...
America's First VPN Ban: What Comes Next?
YouTube video by Techlore
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
somenobody24.bsky.social
From what I can tell, they deleted a section that says NSFW sites have to block VPNS, and added VPNS to an immunity clause that means they can't be held liable for showing NSFW.
Wisconsin Legislature: Amendment SA2-AB105
docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
February 19, 2026 at 1:46 AM
battlebornprogress.bsky.social
WATCH NOW: The Senate and Assembly Judiciary Committees are hearing 3 important gun violence prevention bills! youtube.com/watch?v=P57f... #nvleg #ab105 #ab245 #sb89
3/27/2025 - Joint Meeting of the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Assembly Committee on Judiciary
YouTube video by Nevada State Legislature
youtube.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
takeactionnorthnv.bsky.social
Document your support for this bill here:
May 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
davidmariotte.bsky.social
I made a few short, sharable info posts about the things that're going on (mostly here in the U.S.) that I think people need to be paying attention to and fighting for. Trans rights, fighting against censorship, fighting for a free Palestine, fighting against all the oppressive policies in place.
• Almost 1000 bills have been introduced in the U.S. at both the state and federal levels attacking the rights of Trans people in America. • According to translegislation.com, which tracks those bills, 122 have passed, 225 are pending, and 677 have failed. As recently as 2021, only 153 bills were even considered (and only 18 of those passed). • Some current big ones to be aware of: • In Michigan, HB4938, the "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" would seek to imprison for 20 years, fine for $100K (or more), all "pornography", which includes in their definition, any trace of trans existence. It'd also target all actual porn, block usage of VPNs, and seek to force sites to comply to not host any sort of "adult" content, which again, includes trans people just existing. • The FY2026 budget for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies would prohibit any federal tax dollars going to any gender-affirming care for trans people, and ban funding for any school that allows a trans kid to play sports. These are secs 243-46 and 311-12 respectively. • Again, there are so many fucking more. 92 have just been introduced at the federal level this year. • What you can do: If you live in Michigan, call your state reps to tell them to vote no. Also demand that the 5 Republican reps who introduced this bill resign in disgrace. If you live in the U.S. generally, call your reps and senators. And keep up to date on legislation in your state and in the country with translegislation.com to know what to fight against. • In the comics and entertainment community, I also want to make sure you're up-to-date on what's been happening with trans creators. • Last week, after the death of a noted transphobic white supremacist, Red Hood writer Gretchen Felker-Martin sent out a few posts on Bluesky. They referred to the man as what he was, a nazi, and didn't mince words about how he shouldn't be missed. • Felker-Martin received both a week-long suspension from Bluesky and had Red Hood unceremoniously canceled within 24 hours of the first issue's release. • Like, canceled canceled. Future issue orders canceled, the collection canceled, offering retailers refunds for sold issues canceled. • It may also be worth noting that DC's parent company, Warner Brothers, has significant business dealings with noted transphobe and person Felker-Martin once killed in a work of fiction, JK Rowling. • Trans folks and their allies have already been suggesting a boycott of WB in light of their continued Harry Potter push and funding Rowling's anti-trans crusades in the UK. Now, trans comic creators and allies are suggesting a boycott specifically of DC. • This isn't the only instance of our trans peers being silenced and censored. Speaking specifically to comics, on itch.io, though this has largely been addressed, when they began their panicked response to their payment processors threatening transactions for having adult content on the site, a number of non-adult trans creators had their work restricted and delisted. • It only benefits the people seeking trans genocide to silence trans people. • Closely related, including Michigan's HB4938, are numerous bills seeking to codify first amendment violating censorship. • At the Senate level, there's S.1748 the Kid's Online Safety Act (or KOSA), which has never actually been significantly revised from when KOSA co-author, sen. Marsha Blackburn, said that the bill was specifically for "protecting minor children from the transgender in this culture" (a statement she "walked back", but we know the intent). It is also backed by known radicialist group, the Heritage Foundation. The bill is incredibly overbroad in what topics must be censored online as "harmful to children", including the existence of queer people, information about mental health or women's reproductive rights, and of course porn. • There's also the s.1671, the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, that seeks to create a new definition of Obscenity (and therefore non-protected speech). It's essentially HB4938 on a national level. • There's s.737 the SCREEN Act, which is national age verification online, similar to the UK's Online Safety Act, especially in tandem with KOSA. The ability to punish sites for including age verification--particularly sites like Wikipedia where it isn't posting porn, but has information about sexuality--is another attempt at censorship. It also requires an unreasonable burden on most sites that don't have the capacity to safely capture users identification data (which CONSTANTLY leaks even when "securely captured"). States are also implementing these kinds of age verification policies in law (and in Missouri, the Attorney General just decided it herself), which has driven sites like PornHub to stop operating in those states. It is dangerous for online privacy and through limiting sites that can comply, acts as de facto censorship. • Other states that're specifically going for age verification laws right now include Minnesota (SF2015/HF1434, HF1875), Hawaii (HB1212, HB1198), Michigan (SB284/HB4429, SB191), New Jersey (S4455,A4146), Pennsylvania (HB1513, SB603), South Caroline (H3405), Tennessee (Ht B222/SB466), Iowa (SF207/433, HF864), and Wisconsin (AB105/SB130). • Additionally, Texas, home of so many censorious bills and bills seeking to regulate trans folks out of existence, recently passed SB-20, which is incredibly overbroad in its language to prevent "child pornography" to include any depiction of children's anatomy, causing a comic shop to stop selling Dragon Ball. • Beyond that, there're bills like FADPA (HR791), which while as a creator I am concerned about infringement of my copyrighted work online, has very few checks in their ability to regulate sites that may include copyright violating material (or copyright dubious material) out of existence. Fan sites, for example, could easily be destroyed by this bill. • Outside of state and federal bills looking to create censorship, there is also campaigns going against payment processors, credit card companies, and banks (like Stripe, PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard, to name a few), over their policies that're significantly targeting and restricting the sales of legal, adult content. • In speaking with representatives of Stripe, for example, I've both been told that the Song of Fire and Ice series would be exempt from their restrictions, and yet also, an art book with nude Greek statues would not. Therefore, it's a bad policy. Stripe also doesn't penalize accounts that're violating their policies around intellectual property or not promoting harm, given that they're involved with Substack, Amazon, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
September 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
do-no-harm1.bsky.social
Guns are the #1 killer of children & teens.

So why are gun dealers still allowed to sell assault weapons to teenagers in the state of Nevada?

#NevadaLawmakers: pass common sense gun safety legislation AB245, AB105, SB89 to keep Nevadans safe!

@momsdemand.bsky.social
@studentsdemand.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
3stoneblue.bsky.social
Wisconsinites, if you haven't been paying attention, they're trying to pass age verification and VPN bans through the state legislature! CALL YOUR REPS NOW! CALL GOVERNOR EVERS AND TELL HIM TO VETO IT!

PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY!

#WI #Wisconsin #AB105 #SB130 #VPN #AgeVerification #EFF
EFF to Wisconsin Legislature: VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea
Wisconsin’s S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 is a spectacularly bad idea. It’s an age-verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites for Wisconsinites and censors lawful speech. We wrote ab...
www.eff.org
February 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
anthonylamarche.bsky.social
Please continue to do good by vetoing this nonsense AB105/SB130

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
EFF to Wisconsin Legislature: VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea
Wisconsin’s S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 is a spectacularly bad idea. It’s an age-verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites for Wisconsinites and censors lawful speech. We wrote ab...
www.eff.org
February 18, 2026 at 2:50 AM
congressbills.bsky.social
More info: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/AB105
April 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM
congressbills.bsky.social
📋 WI AB105: Assembly Bill 105

Sponsor: B. Jacobson

Status: Introduced

Link: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/AB105
April 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM
congressbills.bsky.social
More info: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/AB105
February 25, 2026 at 11:05 PM
congressbills.bsky.social
📋 WI AB105: Assembly Bill 105

Sponsor: B. Jacobson

Status: Introduced

Link: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/AB105
February 25, 2026 at 11:05 PM
congressbills.bsky.social
More info: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/AB105
February 21, 2026 at 3:29 AM
congressbills.bsky.social
📋 WI AB105: Assembly Bill 105

Sponsor: B. Jacobson

Status: Introduced

Link: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/AB105
February 21, 2026 at 3:29 AM
congressbills.bsky.social
More info: https://legiscan.com/WI/bill/AB105/2025
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
congressbills.bsky.social
📋 WI AB105: The distribution of certain material on the Internet.

Sponsor: Melvin Kessler (D)
Co-sponsors: Randy White (D)

Status: Engrossed
Last Action: Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
crawler.baldanders.info
＞ Banning VPNs
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/banning-vpns.html
Banning VPNs
<p>This is crazy. Lawmakers in several US states are contemplating <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing">banning VPNs</a>, because&#8230;think of the children!</p> <blockquote><p>As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by targeting VPNs in the name of &#8220;protecting children&#8221; in <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/AB105">A.B. 105</a>/<a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/sb130">S.B. 130</a>. It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed &#8220;sexual content&#8221; to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN. The bill seeks to broadly expand the definition of materials that are &#8220;harmful to minors&#8221; beyond the type of speech that states can prohibit minors from accessing­ potentially encompassing things like depictions and discussions of human anatomy, sexuality, and reproduction...</p></blockquote>
www.schneier.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
citizenptnewsnv.bsky.social
Nevada's Assembly Bill 105 is set to redefine firearm regulations and spark heated debates over public safety and Second Amendment rights!

Click to read more!

#NV #NevadaFirearmRegulation #CitizenPortal #LegislativeReform #PublicSafety #GunControl
New firearm regulations defined in AB105 to take effect July 2025
AB105 establishes definitions and categories for firearms and effective date for implementation.
citizenportal.ai
April 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
datgoose.bsky.social
AB105 has already been passed and is pending when to be introduced for wisconsin.
August 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
extreme91.bsky.social
If Tony Evers signs ab105/sb130 into law we need to recall him and get a democrat into power who thinks anti VPN laws are unconstitutional. It appears Evers got his money under the table from the republican special interests and is ripping up Wisconsin on his way out of office.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
krutmcgee.bsky.social
you need to veto AB105 if it passes, or do whatever you can to prevent this from being passed. Companies will not be able to function without VPNs
February 18, 2026 at 2:06 AM