Note that this is a recurring theme. Two possible explanations: 1. It's trivial for you. Is it as trivial or convenient for the average Joe? Tor is slower and

Note that this is a recurring theme. Two possible explanations: 1. It's trivial for you. Is it as trivial or convenient for the average Joe? Tor is slower and more restricted in terms of multimedia and VPNs and other proxy/routing services cost money and while not hard to implement, are still beyond the grasp of the average citizen. Of course this immediately prompts the question of whether this is intended as a security measure at all since only the average citizen will be affected. 2. I suspect that this is more about legislative precedence than it is about actual implementation. Governments are forever forcing new surveillance measures. The common people ignore them and the techies resolve to bypass them technically. But the politically harm is already done. Before we know it there will be hundreds of these laws and measures passed and when we finally realize it, it will be very hard to persuade the bureaucrats that implemented them in the first place to remove them.