You're describing efforts by powerful institutions to squash the technology, which they definitely try to do, but that's just a strong signal that the technolog

You're describing efforts by powerful institutions to squash the technology, which they definitely try to do, but that's just a strong signal that the technology itself is inherently opposed to centralized power, not an enabler of it. Other technologies like surveillance (and, perhaps, AI) are more clearly centralizing and enabling of power. The difference matters a lot if you're having mixed feelings about working in technology.