Or take the AT&T approach: throttle their link to 14.4k

> it seems you have exceeded your allotted foreign invasions this century; we're reducing your bandwidth until your next billing cycle

Telegram would do ok at 14.4

That would just further isolate working class Russians. A dictatorship doesn’t need consent of the governed to start a war so many Russian people may not approve and now you can’t even communicate with them. I think this would be incredibly short sighted.

Nowadays dictatorships take that decision themselves. No need to impose it on them.

This will just lead to a further balkanization of the internet. China and Russia aren't going to sit by and be beholden to western tech and financial stacks when they can be cut off at any time.

Who's "we"? The Internet was supposed to be decentralized from the start, to prevent actions like this.