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And then the child talks to their friends, some of whom already have free VPNs, and works around it and said parent goes around oblivious to the fact that their child has access to whatever they want.

My son figured out free VPNs when he was 8-9. This is only stopping adults.

>>vidarh+(OP)
Exactly what I was going to say, though I don't think this will stop adults either. If somebody wants porn without asking Big Brother for permission, they're going to search for the answer for how to do that, and find it immediately.

In the era of LLMs this is even more true. Every single chatbot I tried (DeepSeek, Grok, Claude, ChatGPT) except ChatGPT immediately gave numerous and detailed instructions on how to easily bypass the bans. I'm sure one could trivially push ChatGPT outside its love for big brother as well, if they cared to do so.

It's not clear to me who exactly such bans are effective against, and to what end. Obviously the government gains an immense amount of power so they're going to love it, regardless of its efficacy.

>>somena+J1
LLMs is a good point. I think a lot of older people would struggle to figure it out themselves or even know what to search for, but given you can now so easily just ask plain questions about how to circumvent it, perhaps the tech illiterate will also easily bypass them.