The article is basically unreadable, but the fundamental point is probably correct in that if you care about the fact that Mastercard can and does impose pretty horrid censorship requirements on a lot of platforms, and a state that can see everything you do money wise has some pretty scary implications, then Bitcoin has offered some hope there. And Libra is intended (probably) to remove those advantages by co-opting the idea.

Of course, the Libra consortium would also say that it doesn't do those things, because it seems to have promised a bunch of contradictory things to different people. Dystopian levels of control to regulators and banks and Facebook shareholders, but also "people can totally have independent wallets that will enable bypassing KYC etc! We've just not built it yet!"

You'd have to be very silly to believe the latter plan will not be quietly dropped in favour of the former (and it's sadly logical to do so as far as FB are concerned).