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> Could I (US citizen) get in trouble for providing free VPNs to Russian nationals?

Yes if they do anything illegal and it's traced to your account.

> Would these Russians get in trouble for using my US based VPN?

Maybe, depends on laws in Russia.

> I want to support Russians during this difficult time

How about Ukrainians?



> Yes if they do anything illegal and it's traced to your account.

Since when are VPN operators held accountable for their user’s actions? There are plenty of free VPNs out there. We don’t hold Cloudflare responsible when someone makes a death threat using it’s free Warp VPN. Because that makes no sense. If someone committed a crime using my VPN the Netflow /backbone transit logs would prove I didn’t do it and the case against me would be thrown out.

> How about Ukrainians?

They are already getting plenty of support and don’t need VPNs because their internet isn’t censored.


He said he is a citizen and not an operator.

If he was planning on buying subscriptions for Russians then some operators will hand out his details if something illegal was detected.

If he was planning on setting up a VPN of his own on his own connection... then he's in trouble.

Imagine child porn and how hard that would be to fight.




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