Not to mention, if you protest an extensively corrupt government, they could just call up <big-tech-company> and say "Hey, shut 'em down." And they'd happily oblige.
That doesn't happen as easily on the blockchain.
You are fully in control of your funds with cryptocurrency. There is no middleman that can say "no, sorry, you can't use your money today."
Miners could in theory decide to blacklist transactions from particular addresses which are pseudoanonymous. It's a harder coordination problem because miners are less geographically concentrated since the mining ban in China [0] but it's not inconceivable for a country to restrict mining in that way though which would pretty quickly restrict your ability to get transactions included successfully because you'd have a double gamble first on a non-restricted miner including you then on being included on their block (which you could increase by overpaying transaction fees).
That doesn't happen as easily on the blockchain.
You are fully in control of your funds with cryptocurrency. There is no middleman that can say "no, sorry, you can't use your money today."