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 If we do not dismantle the too big too powerful organizations, both private and public, nothing will help to evade censorship and surveilance, not even bitcoin. We have to work in all fonts against statiism and any type of collectivizm at the same time. You can make perfect IT solutions preventing surveilance in bitcoin and lightning, and they will achieve the same and more throught cameras and microphones if they have enough power and will. 
If you do not believe me, look back at gold ceturies ago. For those times gold was as good as bitcoin is today, albeit with very slightly different incentives. Gold's disadvantages were that it was a bit easier to rob/confiscate and that it was shiny and attractive pushing to demonstrate and be proud of it. But its advantage was that then it was more difficult to be surveiled than bitcoin is today.
And did it help with better life and individualizm and end of statiizm? No. Because religions and other values popular among people and especially powerful people had a stronger drive towards collectivizm, statiizm, and all that.