I'm not really trying to be pedantic for giggles.. perhaps I just think it's sad that 99% of ISPs are considered your privacy enemy and on top of that I don't consider VPNs a scalable solution to the problem at large so I'm more entertaining the "why is this the de facto solution" question in the "does it scale to society" solution space. It starts to look more like a social problem/solution than a technology problem/solution. That's more what this is about. If everyone used a VPN we'd really be in the same scenario we are today because to support that infrastructure you'd need exit nodes in every city and boom there goes your location advantage.