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by CryptoPunk 2500 days ago
Thank God for the existence of other countries or else I would be forced to say those laws in Russia and Saudi Arabia are justified, and any technology that that lets people subvert them is immoral.

The idea that one can live in a country where fundamental political values are wrong is alien to most people. Every form of imposition that the government applies is justified with ideological notions like the social contract. So one can only explain the value of censorship resistance by pointing out how it enables people to escape tyrannical laws in those other countries, which unlike our own perfect countries, are repressive.