It's great for buying drugs though! (Which is funnily the only actually legitimate usecase)
A good example was the truck manifestation in Canada a few years ago, they went after all the donors for what was a legitimate protest. Anyone using bank transfers or any crypto that wasn't Monero was persecuted.
Those who used Monero had their privacy assured and zero issues.
Courts deemed as unlawful this government persecution to whoever donated to the protest using transparent cryptocurrency: https://usethebitcoin.com/news/canadian-court-rules-against-...
The point is that only those who used monero were safe from unlawful government persecution.
He received plenty of USD in cash delivered in hands by the US government through the three-letter-agencies. These kind of things always happened, it is unfair and incorrect to blame crypto currencies whereas the overwhelming majority of "special operations" continue to be paid today in plain paper money.
I was interested in Monero because it actually was what people thought Bitcoin was.