UK government launches free protective DNS service for schools

So, basically, a government controlled Pi-Hole / uBlock Origin project.

I'm confused, did I miss something?

Is this not just another way for the government to get a tighter grip on censorship, I.e. to control what the people have the ability to see, or to see only what the government provide? Seems like another pathway to those 1984 shenanigans.

Is the next step to impose MITM proxies that manipulate everything see in realtime.