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Arguably it's a technological solution (or temporary workaround) to a political problem.

In a liberal democracy, it makes sense that its use cases are mostly criminal, because the censorships it evades are mostly eroded by social reform. Those who are left are not hiding from censorship but from democracy.

However, when democracy and liberty are set aside, by fascism or war, these tools really shine. (E.g. BBSes being run on network printers during the wars in Europe in the 90's.)