Associated Press reporters saw more than 80 unmarked military vehicles (Ukraine)

[newthinking]

24. Web traffic is heavily monitored in Ukraine by the government

Really in terms of internet posting anyone is only as free as they are allowed to post without someone knocking at the door or otherwise affecting you or your family. In Ukraine they are knocking the doors of those who post what they do not like at this time.

And as long as organized fascist thugs are freely allowed the liberty to roam and threaten the population there is no web freedom. Even if the government itself does not persecute these groups are doing so, and in a country like Ukraine where it was already possible to bribe your way where want there is nothing keeping those groups from threatening ISPs if they don't allow "a little extrajudicial access".

There have been people posting internet videos in Ukraine who received threats and then those videos removed and they stopped posting. Hopefully those people are still alive.

Interestingly, this *did not* happen under previous administrations. Prominent people could and at times were targeted, but not the average joe (or should we say average Dmitry).