You could go to jail for USING a VPN to access those sites. It also allows the government to "regulate and shut down" any social media site with more than 1 million users. Meaning that all big social media networks would have to do whatever the government wants, since the govenment has a constant threat of banning their network at their fingertips.
They boiled the frogs to death and think if they put them in a pressure cooker and keep raising the temperature the frogs will start moving again.