Many have tried that, IMO getting the word out about VPNs even to non-technical users is important because most people still don’t know what that is. If they ever try to ban VPNs, even non-technical people will know how to use them and how to avoid the bans.
I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.
Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.
They wouldn’t block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That’s very easily doable.
Then Brits can use TOR 😎
If they block the publicly-accessible nodes too, they can use bridges.
That’d quickly become a game of whac-a-mole.
Many have tried that, IMO getting the word out about VPNs even to non-technical users is important because most people still don’t know what that is. If they ever try to ban VPNs, even non-technical people will know how to use them and how to avoid the bans.