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I fully expect that just as citizens in China have had to VPN into other countries and use those countries' services to avoid their government's censorship, we're going to start seeing the US and UK users doing this as well.
Eu is starting to talk about this too now. Where are we all gonna vpn to if the entire world has their own version of locked internet gates?
Realistically, it's all about who has jurisdiction over you, and who will assist the people with jurisdiction over you. I use countries that are less than chummy with the US for my VPN exit nodes, because they're far less likely to issue any subpoenas or comply with data requests from US companies.
Just as I suspect that e.g. Canada may be less likely to assist China in unmasking internet users, and thus be safer for Chinese users as a VPN exit node, the inverse is also true.