[stephen_g]

That sounds like the “something must be done, this is something, so this must be done” argument. Seems to be the most common argument pattern for censorship of all kinds - doesn’t matter if the course of action is ineffective or possibly harmful in the medium term.

It boils down to “if we can’t think of any good solutions to a difficult problem, then we should try bad solutions even if they’re counterproductive”.

[DarkByte8]

Sometimes you need to act in the present. Russia is bombing civilians and is pumping propaganda into nations that help Ukraine trying to convince those nations to not support Ukraine. I don't see how stopping that propaganda is counterproductive. Once the war is over with Russia losing it and Putin out then we stop with the censorship and go back to counter the propaganda using education, information, etc.