> If we take away this last resort from governments, they would react by enforcing client side blocklisting and DRMization as suggested in France[2], or force r

> If we take away this last resort from governments, they would react by enforcing client side blocklisting and DRMization as suggested in France[2], or force root certificate installation using legislation[3], or blocking large swathes of the internet as is the case with China. Not every government has the leverage, capability or power to do this. Client side blacklisting will be trivially circumvented if it actually goes into effect. The browser vendors all rejected the proposed Kazakh root certificate. And plenty of countries with pervasive Internet censorship don't have enough of a "domestic internet" to block large numbers of websites without a lot of people getting upset.