On this point you are wrong: "The biggest privacy freaks tend to be the most affluent and wealthy. This makes sense, but should their opinion matter more than actual dissidents? People who have no privacy because every system around them is already compromised. When privacy is a luxury, unstoppable funding is what people need most." Dissidents need privacy a lot more than the wealth, who can afford other means to defend them selves. See HRF's work with bitcoin powered activists, they are far more sophisticated than the bitcoin rich.