(self-reply; speaking out loud here, basically, while thinking about this more) If businesses that operate communications services are considering shutting dow

(self-reply; speaking out loud here, basically, while thinking about this more) If businesses that operate communications services are considering shutting down in Belarus/Russia in protest, perhaps something akin to "data rationing" (limited hours per day, for example) could be a way to achieve much of the intended effect without all of the potential negative externalities. Most communications services should have their own in-band ways to communicate with their users, and so they should be able to communicate any planned limitations days/weeks in advance (in order to reduce the likelihood of outages causing unnecessary surprises and/or difficulties). This would allow families and peers to continue to communicate, while demonstrating a lack of support for the actions of leadership that have created the circumstances in the first place. It's a different model to that of nations enacting rations within their own borders; this would be a form of communication/data rationing-as-protest.