>True, but the next thing, will VPNs be forced to age verify eventually ? it is like age verifying current generic access to the Internet. Sure, we'll come to

>True, but the next thing, will VPNs be forced to age verify eventually ? it is like age verifying current generic access to the Internet. Sure, we'll come to this too (the anti-utopias aren't fiction, it is future :), yet we still don't verify such a generic access because it isn't the time yet, the society isn't yet totalitarian enough. As a preview - in Russia (i'm less familiar with China to comment on it) they do already attack VPN by making it illegal to advertise it, something like this.