that does help me understand what your point is, thanks. but I still disagree that it means that there is zero friction. it's true that legal protections are not to be counted on. but neither are they completely irrelevant. whoever the adversary might be (and without knowing who that is we can't calculate risk can we?) isn't just co-opting Google and Amazon compute arbitrarily. I understand that you mean that there is *potentially zero friction* at the point where they have taken the gloves off and want to destroy you. and that's worthwhile knowing. it's just not the actual situation right now. but it's certainly worth reflecting on in the Monero community that, if compute is as centralized in large data centers as you say, then regardless of how many plebs are mining themselves, the network is still vulnerable.