Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc tried this in China and failed.  It inconvenienced the people, but it&#x27;s not going to cause a popular uprising.  In the west, you forget that guns and the threat of raw violence by the government are a very real deterrent<p>Kazakhstan isn&#x27;t going to produce a Baidu, but I&#x27;m sure Yandex and VK would be happy to fill a void and play along with their rules.  And in the end, people just have less access to unfiltered news about the outside world.  It&#x27;s a losing plan.