in principle, you can sidestep them, because they are gatekeepers only to their own garden, so the web is still in principle open, and it's one of the few systems that are still open. But if you do something they dont like or something they will shut you out. Or if you do something governments dont like, they will compell them to shut you out. This is the problem, our democracies are still supposed to be liberal. It will take political effort to change that very bad habit

This is 2022. We can't pretend our governmnets can be tech illiterate anymore, and we should not be allowing it