[RichardCoulter]

BBC 1pm News says that Russia is to restrict access to the BBC website, presumably to prevent ordinary Russian people accessing the truth. I'm surprised it's taken them this long tbh.

It's been said that older Russians tend to get their news from state controlled TV, but that younger citizens obtain their news from the internet.

Won't they simply use a VPN? Perhaps all VPN sites are to be blocked too (if possibl)? Is it possible for a Government to mass identify people using a VPN? If so, they will be putting themselves in danger.

I once read a newspaper tech advice article where someone was going on holiday to a country where facebook was banned They asked if using a VPN whilst there would allow them to access facebook and the sensible answer was that this wasn't worth the risk for a fortnight, so there must be a way for them to find out if any Russian people go down this route to access BBC news.