What thise countries do doesn't make what England and France are less severe.

England and France will get there eventually as well if they aren't reigned in. 

 BTC and privacy tech are the way, as you say. There's no stopping them, just ways to negate their efficacy.  

 It is a very poor comparison, since one example is a singular occurrence within a system that is allowing almost all expression and respects personal freedoms, where the other examples have singular examples of where they respect personal freedom sometimes.