[TheSpiceIsLife]

I'll be sign up to a VPN and they won't see any of my traffic

Don't even need to go to that much effort because this is DNS level blocking. Using openDNS[1] or Google's DNS 8.8.8.8 will work.

1. https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/

[pbhjpbhj]

Tin-foil hat level speculation: those in power, the media corps for example, want you to use a VPN or fixed DNS so that the logs of your activity are all in one place. The alternative is trying to track which cafés you used, etc., just to get your full sites-visited log.

/tin-foil-hat