[daxuak]

The Russian government will only take advantage of denied accesses and doubledown with any domestic propaganda they have in the pocket, aren't they? I still don't get what other expectations are on the table when the western world talks about cutting Russians off the internet.

[ivan90210]

>I still don't get what other expectations are on the table when the western world talks about cutting Russians off the internet.

based on my observations over the last two weeks, it's unironically something along the lines of "zoomers throwing molotovs at the police over being deprived of fortnite", because the people who come up with these fantasies project their character traits upon a radically different population. something akin to expecting the Afghani to take up arms against the Taliban over that one McDonald's shutting down in Kabul.

[agumonkey]

It has a limit. A lot of these regimes needs the west to point at them as bad agents and bad cultures. In full silence you're only left with cult of personality .. it might dry off quickly.

[martimarkov]

True but look at North Korea. No external info and it’s a complete human rights shit show.

Maybe slow down the traffic so ppl just get frustrated things are slow.

Maybe even get gov.ru to redirect to images from Ukraine… something that shows the ppl what is happening (although I feel even if they are in Ukraine right now - they will still deny it)

[daxuak]

Quick in the scale of historical timeline. For people living in the shitshow or us watching, that might well take a whole lifetime to process.