You don’t want to be wacked off to only run Monero nodes over VPN or TOR, but it is our fallback.
They couldn’t stop torrents. They couldn’t stop MP3’s.
They won’t stop Monero, unless the people bend the knee. You bend the knee when you don’t have the cajones to run a Monero node.
Who’s ready to risk a little for freedom?
I’m gonna start a monero node once if I have enough time and resources. I don’t think that’s illegal or anything.
Even if it was you should still run one, because it is the right thing to do.