It's only permissionless when it comes to companies. Governments can deny you permissions to do things by shooting you dead if they so decide. I agree the sense of superiority is partially false, when it come to resistance towards governments. But, again, taking power away from the hands of companies is already a worthwhile goal.

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No protocol can solve this because if a government makes saying something illegal, one would have to never attach that statement with one's name if one is in that government's jurisdiction. But attaching one's name to a statement, in public, is part of one's fundamental human right to freedom of speech, so the issue can't truly be solved through any technical solution.