Then we shouldn't be okay with sanctions either, because effective sanctions are about damaging the economy so badly that the current regime feels the risk of i

Then we shouldn't be okay with sanctions either, because effective sanctions are about damaging the economy so badly that the current regime feels the risk of instability. Sanctions rely on popular suffering to achieve this instability. Damage to the people is not a side effect but the core mechanism. There's little difference between IP blocking and economic sanctions. They both damage the economy (and thus the people) by virtue of isolation.