Why ham radio? That doesn’t make sense. There’s no privacy there by law. It is by nature a completely non anonymous medium. Not only that if a country shuts down its comms the hams are all on a nice list for their shit to be confiscated.
Im not a ham because of some romanticised dystopia avoidance. It’s just fun to make things that you can talk to people on :)
Ham Radio does not depend on internet backbone. In the extreme, you can communicate across the world with a few basic electronic components which can be built at home. Sure, government can listen to it but it's trivial to encrypt (illegal on Ham bands) if you're oppressed by the government.
It’d go really well for the government. You’d just end up with a lot of dead hams. Disorganised morons with AR15’s vs professional army. I know who wins that one.
Im not a ham because of some romanticised dystopia avoidance. It’s just fun to make things that you can talk to people on :)