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You're not wrong, since the way the post explains it, govts can't force protocols to adhere to certain laws, but can force services, including those self hosted, to adhere, which makes the whole "use protocols" point moot.
On the other hand, so long as there are many service offerings of the same protocol, like some 2000 different XMPP chat servers that can all communicate with one another, it becomes a game of whack a mole.
tldr the article should be "don't use completely centralized services"