You can’t just instruct ISPs to block all VPN-like traffic, making a total ban impossible to enforce
I wholeheartedly believe they can and likely will before humanity’s brush with capitalism is over. They would just filter traffic from residential network endpoints more heavily than corporate/business users and start culling “illegitimate” business users. Then gradually close the loop on other methods of evading censorship. I do have a background contributing bug fixes to one of the big anti-censorship P2P networks out there.
I wholeheartedly believe they can and likely will before humanity’s brush with capitalism is over. They would just filter traffic from residential network endpoints more heavily than corporate/business users and start culling “illegitimate” business users. Then gradually close the loop on other methods of evading censorship. I do have a background contributing bug fixes to one of the big anti-censorship P2P networks out there.