A slave revolt can only happen when people recognize they are slaves. The revolution has to happen in the mind before the streets. Peaceful protests and activism are important in this day and age. Just look at the lack of response in Luigi Mangione’s heroism.

I used cryptography as an example of a tool that has good and bad use-cases. Not that cryptocurrency equals cryptography. Perhaps I could have worded that better like “There are good and bad use-cases of any tool like cryptocurrency. For example, take cryptography.”.

The vast majority of it is, yes. Still doesn’t change my stance on censorship.

Yes, fake money that journalists use to launder so that they can report on human-rights violations!

Strawman. There are good and bad use-cases of cryptocurrency and cryptography in general just like any other tool. Should we ban Diffie-Hellman as well since it is used by bad actors to send information on illegal and immoral stuff? Let’s just ban all of cryptography since it can be used by evil people to hide from authorities.