Congratulations you literally complied, yeah it's a halfassed concession but it's a submission all the same, you were cowed by a single snarky email, one e-letter from a britgov department achieved more than sammy smith ever did well done.
I have drawer in my kitchen where I collect TV loicense demand letters, they send one every other month or so, they rotate in tone between "didunt chu knuw yu neeeeed a teevee loicense?" to "ARE INSPECTAHS R COMIN 4 U!", nothing every happens because words are meaningless in our anarcho-tyrannical system.
I can appreciate the logic behind "user protection" because everyone should be using a VPN; especially vulnerable localities like bongoloids, but anyone framing this as a proud stand is deluded.