The idea here is, quite obviously, that blocking these services, plus everything that runs on their cloud infrastructure, is too high a price to pay. That mech

The idea here is, quite obviously, that blocking these services, plus everything that runs on their cloud infrastructure, is too high a price to pay. That mechanism is well established, if only by these governments previously being unable to just ban internet access outright, even though it was universally perceived as a threat to their control on the flow of information.