- On September 25, defenders call people around the world to sign a request to defend the VPNs
- Defend VPNS Day of Action is an initiative created by Fight for the Future and supported by some main VPN suppliers
- The VPN block debate has been growing throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, with Michigan proposing a complete prohibition
VPNs are a crucial tool to promote a safe and free Internet worldwide. However, its use has never had a higher risk. A defense group has decided to get to its defense, and needs its help.
On Thursday, September 25, 2025, the VPNS Defend VPN Action Day, an initiative organized by Fight for the Future in response to a growing debate about the VPN block.
Previously, a prerogative of the most authoritarian nations, such as China, Iran and Russia, democratic governments have begun to consider more and more prohibit VPNs completely.
Following the mandatory age verification in the United Kingdom, downloads for the best VPN applications shot as the British sought ways to avoid sharing their most confidential information while continuing to use numerous online services. This has led politicians to question whether the Labor Party should block or not VPN.
A similar debate has also extended throughout the United States as more states enforce some form of age verification laws. Michigan has been the most radical so far, proposing a bill that aims to completely prohibit the use of VPN, but also the promotion of this important piece of technology.
“We want to do some noise and take the first step to be a strong defender of the VPN,” Campaign and Communications director of Fight for the Future Futer Holland told Techradar. “It is important to make legislators aware that, if they come for this technology, they will face an incredible uphill battle against more or less all internet.”
Defends VPN’s action day: everything you need to know
Fight for the Future is asking everyone around the world to go to their Page Defundvpns.com and sign a request to call their government to take a “leadership of principles” against VPN.
If you are in the US, activists also invite everyone to use their call message (see image above) to communicate with the United States Congress and directly ask legislators to refrain from implementing VPN restrictions.
“We want to hit them on the face with numbers to start,” said Holland, explaining that these signatures (and calls) aim to build the bases for a greater defense of the elude tools.
Petition firms are anything but the final objective, in fact. As the next step, fight for the future hopes to associate with other civil societies and increase the impulse of the movement.
“We are starting with the Users of Big Splash and VPN. If the community can appear to us big, then we can be able to move mountains as we have done in the past. So I really hope that people take a moment on Thursday to join,” Holland said.
Why it is crucial to defend the VPN
A virtual private network (VPN) is the security software that millions of adults use daily to increase their online privacy, security and general internet experience. Thanks to IP starvation capabilities, VPNs are also excellent tools to avoid online geostrictions by making it appear as if they are sailing from another country.
The latter is exactly why Proton VPN’s tastes experienced peaks per hour in use of up to 1,400% in the United Kingdom as of July 25, as the mandatory age verification was applied. However, it is impossible to know if behind these statistics there are adults who simply use a VPN for daily protection, others are not willing to provide sensitive details to demonstrate their age or under 18 years of age who seek to evade checks completely.
This was not enough to prevent the child commissioner of England, Dame Rachel de Souza, to consider this technology a “lagoon that needs to close.” Nor Michigan’s republican representative, Josh Schriver, to prepare a bill where Internet service providers would be forced to “monitor and block the known laudinence tools.” Something that violates violently against the 2024 call of the Open Technology Fund backed by the United States (OTF) that urged Big Tech to intervene and support the choice software.
According to Holland, that is the first movement to paint a goal in this technology. “I do not think it stops unless we show how incredibly unpopular that movement would be and tell these politicians to concentrate on the great technology, not in the tools that preserve privacy.”
There is exactly where VPNS day enters.
Windscribe is one of the main VPN suppliers that actively support the struggle for the initiative of the future.
“Obviously, we oppose the prohibitions of VPN and talk where we can, but the reason we are supporting this particular initiative is because the struggle for the future has a proven story of moving the needle about digital rights,” said a company spokesman to Techradar.
If it is a subscriber, you must wait for a WindSscribe notification by email and directly within the application.
Although the complete list of VPN suppliers that bind to the initiative is not public, both the I2Coalition (a consortium that includes the tastes of Nordvpn and ExpressvpN) and the VPN Guild (the non -profit organization behind Russian suppliers such as Amnezia VPN) have confirmed their participation in Techrar.
In general, Windscribe said: “We almost never ask our clients to support something out of Windscribe, so the fact that we are doing it should tell him how seriously we take it.”
