Right. It's possible vpn might be banned in time.

We need to start using our own infrastructure as you say. i've been thinking (and researching) for a while about buying equipment to use long range mesh networks. We can use Briar over bluetooth (and internet i think) already. There are several options. The name of a particular protocol which can be used over any network escapes me at the moment. Sideband app can be used on android for it. I'll let you know when i remember the name.

Then there's also people developing (or even in use already) parallel internets - Qortal being one