Introduction
Journal: The MIT Press eBooks
Year: 2025

On February 24, 2022, as the military offensive against Ukraine unfolded, media censorship along with the monitoring and blocking of the internet immediately intensified in Rus sia.The enlistment of the internet in the service of the Russian state's warmongering suddenly accelerated and allowed the authorities to subdue the public sphere into wartime compliance.The war justified a brutal tightening of the network of restrictions and constraints that were already weighing down on digital infrastr