Episode

Why the War on VPNs Will Be Lost

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Cybersecurity Tech Brief By HackerNoon
Published
Jun 15, 2026
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885
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Summary

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-the-war-on-vpns-will-be-lost . From Gutenberg to Tor: a privacy founder's historical case for why every government crackdown on information tech has failed — and why this one will too. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity . You can also check exclusive content about #vpn , #online-privacy , #cybersecurity , #digital-rights , #freedom-of-information , #internet-censorship , #internet-freedom , #cyber-policy , and more. This story was written by: @vasiliy-ivanov . Learn more about this writer by checking @vasiliy-ivanov's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . VPN bans are the latest version of an old censorship pattern: governments try to control information infrastructure, users find workarounds, and the technology adapts. History shows that circumvention tools rarely disappear — they become more distributed, resilient, and necessary.