Don't count on that. 99% of the population does not give a fuck about privacy. Probably 80% doesn't truly care about democracy, they merely have a preference for it. Freedom has always been a minority obsession and fight.
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Which means, it will the state(s) still a great deal of pain to wake people up and small dissenters will be the first to die.
Hopefully not.
Hopefully there's a much larger slice of the population which has legitimate interest in removing constraints from their lives, increase their savings, have better futures for their families. Sounds like there's a small majority of the population that just doesn't know what to do and where to look.
Here @freddynew’s take on it on X fwiw 
I still don’t understand how lightning payments would be affected. I think this is just clueless garbage from EU bureaucrats that think they can stop bitcoin. But it will just have the opposite effect
They wouldn't be. But let's say you buy Bitcoin and then open a channel. You might get annoying compliance question, because they can't surveil you anymore. They might close your account. This can lead to self-censorship.
In that sense lightning has similar properties "anonimity-enhanced" coins. Which is good! (plus politically speaking, it's hard for them to argue against "I use it because it's cheaper and faster, it just happens to also be more private")
The self-censorship is already happening but thats also with my fiat bank account. I minimised the use of my bank accounts since they started asking insane KYC/AML questions. I was shocked and couldn’t believe what I read. Now my bank accounts are at ~0 and the banks are starting to beg me to make deposits with pathetic offers! The next banking crisis is near. Banks are NGMI.
It stops business adoption.
Adoption might get impacted temporarily, but I agree with nostr:npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2 ‘s take here 