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I don't think it's that smug, it's largely realistic. The point is that VPNs have significant legitimate and almost necessary usage, which means
a - There will be some amount of corporate pushback. Maybe not enough, but it's less likely to mean it'll be a law. b - You can't just instruct ISPs to block all VPN-like traffic, making a total ban impossible to enforce. c - Allowing 'legitimate' VPNs may allow people to slip preferred ones in as 'technically allowed'.
So yes, of course the government can just ban the "bad" VPNs, but that compromise alone means it'll be significantly worse at banning.
Also, given Mullvad takes cash for a significant fraction of payments, banning payment processors probably wouldn't be so big a deal.
Yeah, I suspect overall it'd still stop >50% of the population, but I'd argue not much more.
I wholeheartedly believe they can and likely will before humanity's brush with capitalism is over. They would just filter traffic from residential network endpoints more heavily than corporate/business users and start culling "illegitimate" business users. Then gradually close the loop on other methods of evading censorship. I do have a background contributing bug fixes to one of the big anti-censorship P2P networks out there.