The forbidden fruit is sweet

... and I'm not talking about child pornography.

But just imagine - the law on blacklists actually worked. And, indeed, not only resources with child pornography began to appear there, without a court decision (although, of course, this is a very rich idea - the state, which plans, at its own expense and on its own, to compile and publish a comprehensive register of sites with such content! "pedophile lobby" will swallow saliva and be very grateful!), and, as we all fear, simply "undesirable" and "unreliable" sites. Someone writes in the comments of a famous blogger, “kill yourself against the wall,” and tomorrow the entire blog is on the register for publishing information about suicide methods. There is little doubt that this is exactly what will end.

So what will happen then?
It will be good. Why? Well, let’s simulate a situation where, roughly speaking, Navalny’s blog (or some other resource; Navalny’s blog is here only for the sake of clarity as an example).

1. Ordinary Internet users will be cut off from political content. Long gone are the days when the Runet consisted of programmers and system administrators; 95% of today’s readers of Navalny’s blog will not be able to configure their own proxies/VPNs in such a way as to bypass content filtering mechanisms.
2. The rest will feel a shortage. The usual content, which now forms an important part of their daily reading, but which, due to its easy accessibility, they skim through and without reading, will no longer be there. The shortage will lead to an increase in demand. (Remember how, after Onishchenko’s ban, everyone suddenly began to suddenly miss and really want Georgian wine? Although, frankly speaking, there is nothing special about this wine).
3. There will be real samizdat. Everyone will be vying with their IT specialist friends to ask them to copy, send by mail, print out whatever Navalny wrote today. The Good Propaganda Machine will start and rush away. (Now, to be honest, she is moving very, very quietly).
4. The degree of trust in prohibited content will increase sharply. It’s very typical for us: “if they forbid it, it means it’s true, it means they’re afraid.” This will simply happen on a subconscious level, and it will definitely intensify if printouts from a forbidden blog go around, because there is more trust in the printed word than in the letters on the screen.
5. There will be more reposts, reprints, and distribution of prohibited content. Now there is no incentive for this, it lies freely, take it and read; and everyone reading this knows this. And after the ban, they will try to place it in as many places as possible, and, in particular, the long-awaited infiltration of the political Runet into the now apolitical social networks will finally begin.

In short, everywhere you look there are only advantages.
No one helps rock the boat like the dear party and government.

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