This is my primary motivator for supporting Bitcoin. No one supports criminal activities, but we underestimate how much AML/KYC laws have produced a chilling effect on an open society.
The relative ease with which your assets can be frozen, compared with how difficult and opaque it is to get them unfrozen; is something I have witnessed many times and I feel is absolutely unfair. This leads to self-censorship and dissuades the public free exchange of ideas.
If Bitcoin can eventually fund for example; a pro-democracy movement in China or a pro-secular movement in the Middle-East, then it is definitely worth all its flaws.
The relative ease with which your assets can be frozen, compared with how difficult and opaque it is to get them unfrozen; is something I have witnessed many times and I feel is absolutely unfair. This leads to self-censorship and dissuades the public free exchange of ideas.
If Bitcoin can eventually fund for example; a pro-democracy movement in China or a pro-secular movement in the Middle-East, then it is definitely worth all its flaws.