if you continue to access (as many of us do...) Russian Iranian or Chinese etc sites using a VPN.

I use Tor guv, not a VPN .. : )

It appears alarming and preposterous that we have got anywhere near to this point. But, surely, so many people try to get around censorship.

The real worry for us if this bleeds from over the pond, which it just may do, to show to our US master how gung-ho we are as a faithful minion. The numbers would be overwhelming for GCHQ/courts/police surely?