Absolutely and fair point: My story is indeed an anecdote; but it was not strictly meant to address the question of whether Crypto is useful or not in escaping government oversight, but the specific hypothesis in the post I replied to:

  "Those who haven't personally experienced #1 (such as world superpowers, the wealthy/"elite") seem not to be able to grasp the benefits. "

As such, I wanted to provide a counter-point/perspective, anecdotal as it may be.