It's not technical minutiae, it's the difference between government censorship and private property rights. Almost all web traffic follows the pattern you laid

It's not technical minutiae, it's the difference between government censorship and private property rights. Almost all web traffic follows the pattern you laid out, and almost none of it in the US is broken in that pattern. Having your content hosted on the end service is entirely up to who runs the end service, and entirely outside the control of democratic government. And it's a privilege, not a right. Would you have our government force Youtube to host content it's decided it doesn't want to host?! I suppose if your understanding of the world were as simplistic as that of someone who believed RT, you would just assume government makes everything up and creates corporations as shells to put out their message. That's not how it works in the free world. Youtube is just one site in Russia. RT is one site in America. RT is not banned in America. Does RT let me post anything I want about Ukraine on their website? When they do, let us know.