A Michigan bill aiming to ban online pornography in the state has another alarming proposal tucked into it, one tech governance watchdog says.

House Bill 4938 , introduced by state Rep. Josh Schriver, R-Oxford, would ban online pornography in Michigan, as well as create penalties for using any software circumvention tools to access pornography.

It’s unlikely the bill will even be voted on, given the limited support it has in the state Legislature. But the provision banning software tools like virtual private networks, or VPNs, has caused concern over potential government overreach in tech spaces.

What are VPNs?

A VPN is software that creates an encrypted network between a device and the remote internet server it’s connected to, according to Microsoft . VPNs provide a layer of encr

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