[chuckit]

He covers that exact comment in his FAQs.

Q: Why don't you have some obvious fields like "Works with Netflix/Hulu", "Works in China", etc? A: Besides the impracticality of testing each of them, these services/governments could use the data I publish to crack down on those that still work.

[dheera]

I suppose. Perhaps if it were a webapp instead of a spreadsheet, people could use a voting system to test and fill in the columns (similar to the coupon code websites).

The latter point though I think isn't all that strong. From a government perspective, the entire list is a checklist of what to block, whether or not that column exists. Most of the VPN providers