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There is a massive divide between private citizens harassing and bulling one another and governments wielding a monopoly on force outlawing and punishing dessent against the ruling class.

You can sue someone for attacking you online if they cause provable financial or social distress. Go try suing the CCP in China for not providing freedom of speech and see how that unexplained disappearance treats you.

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Nobody who is doxxed has a travel ban.

Yes, but in this case we’re talking about the government punishing the same practices that the polity will harass and bully a person over, rather than just practices that are against the state’s own interests, in addition to the state suppressing things it actually derives benefit to itself by suppressing.

Or, to put that another way: if there’s a lynch-mob after you, does it matter how many of its members are in uniform?

Obviously yes it matters. You got rights, and self-defense is infinitely easier if it's not the government coming after you.

Yes it does. Because it answers whether there are people in uniform that can protect you.

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