One problem with it, which I think is underestimated, is that the censors are affected by their own propaganda. When they decide, say, to throttle Russian gover

One problem with it, which I think is underestimated, is that the censors are affected by their own propaganda. When they decide, say, to throttle Russian government media, they themselves get less exposure to it (directly and indirectly). In the next step, when they ban Russian government media entirely, they've seen less of evidence which might suggest banning it was a bad idea. We have seen where that path leads. Russia itself ran a VERY effective system of suppressing "misinformation" and "foreign propaganda" themselves, for the better part of a century. They suppressed all doubt in their system, but as a side effect they suppressed all actual faith in it as well. By the end, the entire system ran on the fumes of their grandparents' beliefs. And now it's a mafia state, shocking in its nihilism. That's where the US is headed too, if it deals with its doubts in the same way.