Couldn't disagree more with this article.
VPN is a solution to a policy problem until policy makers forbid VPN to enforce their core idea in the first place. (e.g. see United Arab Emirates for some restrictions of VPN use)
That's right folks: the overwhelming power of the state to enact actual policy that can impact millions of lives? It crumbles before the power of my 1ghz Atom router. It has AES-NI, after all. That's, like, impossible to beat.