Maybe I'm wrong but who can stop you or me from deploying VPN and providing secure comms channel to our families? surely, any user who encrypts their comms is s

Maybe I'm wrong but who can stop you or me from deploying VPN and providing secure comms channel to our families? surely, any user who encrypts their comms is suspicious to govt, but there needs to be something more than suspicion for govt to step in and tell me I can't encrypt my traffic?