Just my opinion, I think they are a little late to be starting this movement. From the day they invaded Ukraine the Russian Youtubers were sharing information

Just my opinion, I think they are a little late to be starting this movement. From the day they invaded Ukraine the Russian Youtubers were sharing information both inside and outside of Russia about what both Russian and non-Russian media were saying. I follow a few of them. It's mostly young people that use VPN's and get their news online in Russia and that is precisely who fled. Russia have lost over 1 million men that would otherwise be subject to conscription. Most of those Youtubers have also fled the country and continue to use VPN's to share information in and out of Russia as laws were created to crack down on anyone speaking out against the military operations. The article talks about Russia potentially following the firewall strategy of China but I think a bigger concern would be the families of the Youtubers that fled being harassed or worse which is an ongoing problem in China when their citizens that relocate speak ill of the CCP. Also just recently Russia changed their laws about evading conscription making it a more serious offense and pretty much guaranteeing those men will not return until the Russian government is entirely replaced.