Russia to Blacklist VPN Hosts: A One-Year Digital Exile for Web Freedom
The Russian Ministry of Digital Development has drafted a law that reads like a fan-fiction of a surveillance state, proposing to ban anyone hosting VPN-related tools from using any domestic hosting services for a year.
The proposed legislative change targets individuals or entities that facilitate access to restricted online resources. If a user or a service utilizes domestic server capacity to host tools that bypass local internet censorship, they will be cataloged in a special registry of shame.
Once an entity is added to this list, every single hosting provider within the country is legally forbidden from offering them any computing power for 365 days. The administrative grasp extends to any software, website, or even simple Telegram bots operating through proxy configurations, effectively forcing any infrastructure that touches blocked content into a complete digital vacuum.
The sheer administrative complexity of tracking every minor proxy connection suggests a beautiful level of technical incompetence that will likely punish innocent businesses long before it catches a single actual dissident.
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