I'd wager that's the goal. Media - music, news, movies - from the West (Western Europe, US) is one of the many things that sparked discontent in Soviet-bloc co

I'd wager that's the goal. Media - music, news, movies - from the West (Western Europe, US) is one of the many things that sparked discontent in Soviet-bloc countries. It countered much of the propaganda put out by the "workers paradises." In more current times, putting out video, images, and information has shed light on atrocities that are going on around the world. Some of it drives people to action. Anything the regimes can do to cut off communications is a win for them.