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>>doomro+(OP)
Age assurance will be the gateway to government issued(via corporate proxy) internet usage permits.

>>krunck+67
Not necessary, Uganda has been levying social media taxes on end-users since 2018 by automatically adding it to your cell phone bill if you access a social media website. About 2.7¢ per day of usage.[1]

Virtually everyone gets their internet from an ISP that is regulated in the country that the user lives in. There are no technical barriers to implementing a permitting system in the United States.

Linking connections to real people is self-enforcing when there is a usage-based tax.

[1] https://www.africanews.com/2018/04/13/uganda-s-social-media-...

>>jjmarr+bb
Do you happen to know what the answer of this scheme to "I have a wireguard connection to another country, you can't see my traffic" is? I know that enough of the population would never bother so it wouldn't significantly harm it as a revenue scheme, but if your goal is avoiding identification rather than taxation then the stakes could be high enough to make the effort worthwhile.

>>regula+ng
> Do you happen to know what the answer of this scheme to "I have a wireguard connection to another country, you can't see my traffic" is?

WG traffic is easily identifiable and able to be blocked, it's what happens in countries that ban VPNs.

>>heavys+Pi
At that point something along the likes of shadowsocks would be more effective, and the question still remains.

>>prophe+UE
Shadowsocks is detectable using entropy analysis but not everybody does it. I heard in China they do. you connect at first they collect data, analyze and ban. in Russia they are not that smart yet but in Russia even if you mask VPN traffic they use other tricks. For example if you visit any state adjacent site from your Russian IP and VPN with same cookies they can ban VPN exit node. Or if all your traffic goes to one IP they will probe ports or just ban that.