Or teach people how to point to a different DNS server in an area with laws more amenable to their preferences.

Until coutry implement the great firewall and it becomes a play of cat & mouse.

... or until the blocking starts at the root name servers. There are only a few of them.

	▲	immibis 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The root zone file is publicly distributed by IANA [1] so you can download it and ignore the servers themselves. Then your lookup (from the resolver you're running yourself) starts at a particular country's top level. As for censorship, because it's hierarchical, they'd have to remove an entire country code from the root servers. [1] https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files