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by norhi999 1574 days ago
That's pretty dumb idea, actually. Russians mostly use local sites. To get to them you need to use either mega-services that all the world uses like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Google News or TikTok or post on those local sites directly.

Geofencing or network disconnects would turn liberal part of the population, that actually uses foreign sites inside the country, and thus knows the truth of the events already, against you instead, meaning you will actually _help_ Putin giving him more pretexts to use and supporters to rely on. If you aren't planning that in the first place, because it seems rather obvious if you think about it even a little.

Russia needs more unbridled Internet, not less.