# Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing | Electronic Frontier Foundation

<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing>

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## What Jamie wrote

Hopefully this gets nowhere. The ability to manage our privacy and protect our communications should be fundamental.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

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- [WT333: Weekly Thing 333 / Gemini, LangChain, Illusion](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/333/), Briefly

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