And people say "but the US government isn't blocking Tor!". Feds'd need a bunch of new lies to get around the First Amendment if they openly banned it, plus then various agencies wouldn't be able to use it themselves.
Tor still has more exit nodes than any commercial VPN. Its just that half of them are run by script kiddies trying to downgrade your HTTPS and/or fake certificates, poorly. Ctrl-shift-L fixes this, but its a pain.
Tor Hidden Services fix this better, because then the circuit doesn't need an exit.
Some Nostr relays offer Hidden Services already! All should.