Oh, but they sure as hell can. They can get together and tell the miners in their country they either have to shut down or not mine these transactions. And if those are more than 51% of all mining power, then that's it. Even if your transaction gets mined, they could just orphan the block.
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There are a lot of countries in the world with anonymous miners. They don’t all just do whatever our government wants them to do. The fee market incentivizes miners to not censor. As the number of censored transactions rises, the incentive to mine them grows. If those transactions don’t go through, the price could suffer and the miners would be shooting themselves in the foot.