@Kazimierz Kurz In case you haven't noticed there is "war" in hashtags. #NoWar actually but for that people get detained too. This too can't be written on Russian part of the net without risking repercussions.

Dozens (literally) of media websites got blocked in last ten days for calling it war. They are currently inaccessible for the vast majority of population without VPNs.

Also about 95-98% of public Tor bridges are currently blocked for the same reason. Not because you can buy drugs in Darknet - they were fine with that for decade - but because you can use it to read websites using the word "war". Or Ukranian resources. Including a couple of websites where you can look up your relatives in case they are KIA or captured.

About every other day another public VPN gets blocked too.

BBC is blocked. So is Facebook. So is Twitter. Many others too. Instagram joined them today. Guess the reason why.

So if you like the idea of Russian people getting cut off from the global Internet - it means you want them not to use this word. Here is called "special operation". And some of censored websites are blocked using DPI and not listed as blocked. So it is called "network difficulties".

Fuck Netflix, seriously. Fuck Youtube even (still works, I suppose not for long). It is about accessibility now. It is about having different opinion.

To be honest I don't care about myself much. I will get by one way or another. I am scared about 140 million people here not being able to have different opinion. About them seeing what television said as true - enemies all around, nothing good out there, there be dragons.

Also let me to be blunt but it is absolute nonsense to think that things like that hurt industrial complex. Russia is well connected and basic infrastructure will work. They are designing it all this way because they want to be able to shut it down themselves. Severing dependencies only strengthens the isolation. It is not good for anyone.

@Kazimierz Kurz Well, I agree with you that 15 years ago Russia was not a democratic state either, but look what two terms of PIS rule have done to democracy in our country. What good is democracy if the majority of society believes in propaganda or sells its vote for various benefits. What have democratic methods brought us in terms of stopping our own government from engaging in various destructive activities? And what courage the Belarusians showed in their protests against Mr Lukashenko and the result was the same. That is why I do not come so easily to judge ordinary Russian citizens.
But here I come to the second point, and I refer to Alexander - you do not consider one more side of the whole issue. Cutting off Russians from various social networks makes it difficult for trolls to sow disinformation and influence public sentiment. We experienced this to a very large extent in the first days of Russia's war against Ukraine. Every day there was a new "message of the day" in the media, and even though the more informed people fought this disinformation, the majority still believed all this stuff. And frankly it seems to me that most people believe all this crap not because they don't have access to other information but because they are bombarded with disinformation either by the state media or by trolls who pretend to be ordinary people whose "auntie heard", "friend's brother-in-law saw" "auntie's best friend was a witness". And unfortunately for such people, if you show evidence that it is not true, it still does not change their mind. You have such people (Putin has reportedly 60% support) and we have such people too. So I don't know if access to the Internet would change anything. So far you have had access and support for Putin's actions is high and average people believe his lies. It seems to me that this access is being cut off precisely so that people in other countries are not exposed to this propaganda as well. Everyone has the right to believe what they want, but right now there is a war in which people are dying and the manipulation of public sentiment is not what we need.