Even if the entire state government were Republican, it wouldn't pass. This bill is basically the definition of governmental virtue signaling

Businesses require VPNs to function. Banning them would decimate Michigan's economy. The only thing these people truly value is money

I'm getting to it! It's on my to do list, with the 13,572 other projects I'm working on :(

What a non-issue. From Microsoft's immutable laws of security, written decades ago:

Law #3: If a bad actor has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore.

The classic example was an attacker can simply take a baseball bat to your system if they have physical access

It's a cow. The ASCII art is used in a lot of different CLI projects