[AndroTux]

I really don't understand what you're not getting here. I'm not trying to be condescending, but I explained it as simple as possible. But let's break it down again:

1) You currently reside in Iran for whatever reason.

2) You download, or have downloaded previously, a VPN software that does not tell you where you exit truthfully.

3) You connect to Pakistan, because you want to spread information that is illegal in Iran, but legal in Pakistan. You choose Pakistan because it is near you, so you get better latency.

4) In reality, your VPN exits not in Pakistan, but in Iran. Because they lied.

5) Iran is now able to monitor both your connection traffic to the VPN, and your VPN's exit traffic.

6) You die.

Simple as that. I don't see why this is not a realistic use case in your mind? One very prominent selling point for VPN providers is exactly this. Allowing reporters and other minorities to still safely access the internet in areas in which it is not allowed by law. You don't have to be an Iranian for that. You can just be there, as an international correspondent, using a western VPN, for example. Or you're visiting family after purchasing that VPN in Europe somewhere.

> No VPN providers are accidentally routing into an oppressive dictatorship.

The entire point of this article is that you as the user can't know that. And almost every country is applying some kind of censorship that may or may not affect you. As I mentioned in my previous example, Snowden is a real life situation in which this exact thing would have mattered. He didn't live in an oppressive dictatorship, yet a VPN exiting in Canada vs. exiting in the U.S. would have made a significant difference in safety for him.