«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html
@kensanata And it's never been the Internet as infrastructure that did that; it's always been somewhat fragile and far too beholden to the US government. It just happened that the US government of the time saw itself as the protectors of freedom against "evil" foreign regimes. Now it's just another censor, just acting on behalf of different stakeholders.