I think there’s been good criticism of your arguments so far and I don’t want to pile on; but I see _a value_ in commercial VPN companies.
I, a tech savvy person, have no issue creating an SSH proxy server in any country in seconds.
But I also make online video games, and the US sanction system means I must block people from accessing our services; even if they have a copy of the game.
They did nothing wrong, my company isn’t even US based: we just used a cloud provider and all of those are US based.
So, I encourage those users to use a vpn if one is available to them.
I, a tech savvy person, have no issue creating an SSH proxy server in any country in seconds.
But I also make online video games, and the US sanction system means I must block people from accessing our services; even if they have a copy of the game.
They did nothing wrong, my company isn’t even US based: we just used a cloud provider and all of those are US based.
So, I encourage those users to use a vpn if one is available to them.