Michigan HB 4938 (ISP Filtering and VPN Ban)

Michigan, United StatesMichigan HB 4938Updated September 11, 2025

25%of the way to law
Bad for your rightsIntroduced
  1. Introduced
  2. Passed House
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Became Law

Parked in House Judiciary, no hearing

Would force ISPs to filter the internet statewide and block VPNs, proxies, and encrypted tunnels. Parked in committee, but it is the blueprint.

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Key facts

Where
Michigan, United States
Bill number
Michigan HB 4938
Status
Introduced
Introduced
September 11, 2025
Threat
High
Last update
September 11, 2025

Topics

CensorshipEncryptionAge Verification

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What it does

The Anticorruption of Public Morals Act criminalizes broad categories of online sexual content and puts the enforcement duty on internet service providers. ISPs would have to run content filters and detect and block circumvention tools, which the bill spells out: VPNs, proxy servers, encrypted tunnels. The obligation is not limited to people trying to reach banned material. Using a VPN at all would be treated as an attempt to bypass the state filter. Introduced September 11, 2025; it sits in House Judiciary with no hearing scheduled.

What’s at stake

The other bills on this tracker target websites or app stores. This one drafts your ISP as the censor and makes the private connection itself the offense. It has no path through Michigan's Senate this session, but it still exposes the endpoint the other laws are walking toward, written down early.

Our take

Most age-verification laws pretend VPNs do not exist. Michigan's bill is more honest: for the checkpoint to work, the tools that protect your privacy have to be banned. It will not pass in 2026. The idea is now on paper, and ideas on paper get reintroduced.