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A friend of mine had to swear on a holy book to not use VPN upon returning to their country of origin.

This would make me nervous, but also optimistic that it's difficult to detect? Otherwise why use hell as a deterrent?

Or just bigger leverage, the crime isn't using the VPN, but lying or dishonoring the holy book

Which were you thinking of?

I can imagine Iran has some effort to discourage use of VPNs, though of course everyone does.

I thought China simply made it easy to stay within the Great Firewall, and moderately difficult to get out.

There's a decent overview here: https://www.gp-digital.org/world-map-of-encryption/

I don’t understand this. If you live in the US and use a service like ProtonMail, has a crime been committed? Are there any examples here in the US or anywhere else of arrests/prosecutions being made over encryption? I’ve never heard of any??

He's probably talking about authoritarian regimes like China or whatever.

There are places that are not the United States.

I don't live in the US