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Let's be clear here: lawmakers need to abandon this entire approach.
The answer to "how do we keep kids safe online" isn't "destroy everyone's privacy." It's not "force people to hand over their IDs to access legal content." And it's certainly not "ban access to the tools that protect journalists, activists, and abuse survivors.”
If lawmakers genuinely care about young people's well-being, they should invest in education, support parents with better tools, and address the actual root causes of harm online. What they shouldn't do is wage war on privacy itself. Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And this battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works.
If you live in Wisconsin—reach out to your Senator and urge them to kill A.B. 105/S.B. 130, and if you know someone who lives in Wisconsin—tell them to do the same. Our privacy matters. VPNs matter. And politicians who can't tell the difference between a security tool and a "loophole" shouldn't be writing laws about the internet.
If the government really wanted to protect children from the internet they'd provide locked down devices with spyware to each kid or they'd force parents to buy locked down devices. They'd punish parents if a child used a device that isn't locked down. If they actually cared about protecting children they'd monitor their parents with spyware too. Why stop with government provided safe devices and spyware though, they could install cameras in every house that has kids just so they can monitor kids 24/7.
Obviously they're not going to do any of that. There probably already is spyware in most devices and it's not like they're using it to protect them now. Banning VPNs for the sake of protecting children is just as stupid.