Comment by panarky

An autocratic regime of a large nation locks up its critics and other undesirables in camps.

100,000 activists who haven't been caught yet switch to Tor for anonymity.

For $60,000, the regime monitors Tor for a year, identifies 6,500 activists, and marches them off to the camps.

And by discrediting Tor the regime pushes the other 93,500 activists even farther underground, constraining their ability to recruit, limiting their ability to coordinate with each other, and reducing what they can publish about what's happening to their country.