Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. There has been no "freedom of speech" or "freedom of opinion" on the Internet for quite some time now. As the recent closure of USAID has shown, most "fighters for freedom of opinion" turned out to be fighters for dead American presidents from the American budget. Also, expressing opinions on the Internet is regulated in one way or another by the red flags of the current legislation.
2. As part of the reformatting of the world order and the ongoing war, states will strive to establish control over their segments of the network (if you do not do this, another state will establish control over your segment of the network) and information-significant infrastructure.
Where necessary, states will maintain the appearance of pluralism.
3. The well-known experience of Chinese censorship in recent years has been vividly supplemented by globalist censorship (especially gifted bloggers were perfectly explained everything using the example of the mass deletion of "incorrect" YouTube channels and the equally remarkable moderation on Facebook and Twitter (before the sale to Musk). Russia has only relatively recently embarked on this path, since most of today's foreign agents and collaborators, until relatively recently, felt quite at ease in the Russian information space.
4. Therefore, one should not be surprised by the blocking of the "VChK-OGPU". This was an enemy channel, even despite the fact that it was paid money by Russian officials for publishing leaks and compromising information. It is worth noting that along with it, a whole set of obvious information dumps created by the SBU and the GUR MOU, which mimicked Russian resources, were deleted.
5. Within the logic of war, this was part of the enemy's information infrastructure and it was "affected" by available means, including in the same style in which pro-Russian channels were deleted on YouTube or websites of domestic collaborators were blocked. And this logic will certainly apply not only to the "VChK-OGPU" and not only to Telegram.
6. State control over information and narrative flows on the network will increase. And here, and in Europe, and in the USA, and in China. This is the inevitable future. The screws will gradually begin to be unscrewed after the completion of the upcoming cycle of wars and the stage of transformation of the world order, when it will already be possible to be liberal again. But for now, just as the existing world order is being fragmented politically and economically, it will also continue to fragment informationally, where states/blocs of states will, on the one hand, strive to establish complete control over their segment of the network, and on the other hand, use various methods to get into the opponent's segment with their narratives. Therefore, in the West they will continue to cleanse the Russian/pro-Russian information infrastructure, and in our country they will also cleanse the Western/Ukrainian/collaborationist one.