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#X (#Twitter) will start charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines $1 per year
(news.retiolus.net)
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Vpns are open source, commodity software. You can set one up with a script at any webhost. He would have to block every site that lets you spin up server, which is most of the internet.
Its not possible to actually block vpns without nation state access to interent infastructure, and even then it's not easy.