To be clear: for those that are able, advocating for a permanent policy change is the better solution. Government access to all user data could become a requirement to run a legitimate business. Even if we were able to convert everything to an anonymous P2P traffic-flooded web, we would still live in fear (will the 5th protect you?).
That is why we need both activists and engineers.
But more radical, long term solutions are still important! An exciting prospect.
We can slow the expanding encroachment by introducing say the Amash bill, but the real solution must come first from defensive technology, secondarily protected by policy.
Policy changes come about because of technical reality. Better technology is always superior to government policy.
By all means, pursue both the technical and political solutions. But creating and distributing tools has proven to be the better method of change than depending on governments.
As much as we might not want to depend on the government, we're subject to policy.
If security is outlawed, only outlaws will be secure.
Moral of the story: Illegalization doesn't make things impossible, it pushes their cost up high enough to make them economically infeasible.