100%, as well as DMCA take down requests, and needing to often pay for indexer and provider.

That being said I still think it’s far superior to torrents, though I do maintain a good ratio on a large private tracker for those odds and ends I can’t get on Usenet.

You don’t have to seed. Connections are secure and encrypted. Speed is generally much faster, and more reliable. Things will either download in full, or fail pretty quickly, no hoping that 1 seeder comes online. Things are often posted to Usenet before torrents.

There are drawbacks too though.

This is probably the best example I’ve seen of “let them think you’re an idiot, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt”.

Do you have the same feelings towards Pakistan?

Fwiw I don’t think any state should be formed around religion, but if you look at the last few thousand years the Jews have been non stop driven out of just about every corner of the earth, and literally genocided. Surely if any group needs a reliable place to call home, it is the Jews.