Yes, but it's not because computers/VPNs are involved, it's because it's used to do another illegal act (ie. accessing blocked or illegal content). It's not any different than anti-circumvention provisions in US law.
You're expecting religious law to be consistent? You can use a spoon to kill, you can use a door to kill, yet I bet the members of this religious council got out of the building through a door.
Not really but I'm always curious of the ingenuity when it comes around such laws.
Just like the Catholic Church declared beavers are fish so they could be consumed during Lent in Canada in the 18th century because other food was hard to come by in winter there.
Well at least that was somewhat constructive and helpful to normal people. This council is just trying to use religion to further cement the power of the government.
Are there provisions for the people working on the systems that filters the traffic or those that validate that an address must be blocked?