Vitalik advocates for a zk anonymous voting mechanism to solve social issues, stating that governance actions should protect decision-makers from violent threats.

Foresight News reported that Vitalik Buterin commented on the incident of "a judge's house being set on fire" stating, "I have a more radical belief that more governance actions should be anonymous / conducted through secret voting (for example, I previously advocated for the United Nations General Assembly to conduct secret voting) to protect decision-makers from external pressure and violent threats." He stated, "The judge's duty is to make rulings based on the facts as interpreted by their conscience, not to be accountable to violent thugs. These ideas sound crazy today, 'Why do cryptocurrency zealots want to push zk-SNARKs technology solutions into the realm of social issues?' But in this era of the 2020s where physical retaliation is readily available (including retaliation from foreign hostile forces), I believe such ideas will increasingly enter the Overton window."