I don't think that you can have a little bit of free speech, just like you can't be a little bit pregnant.

To quote Bradlaugh: "Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race."

Same for free commerce, free expression of value.

The whole point of bitcoin is that state violence is ineffective. We aren't there yet, since using bitcoin privately is still too hard (see Canada) but I am confident that we will get there quite soon.

The switch from http to https didn't happen over night either.