Bloomberg: Who Is Responsible for Blocking the Internet in Belarus?

I can understand the desire and would support it as long as browser vendors don't include root certs of these firewalls, so that there is the need to at least kind of consent to it.

In my country you can disallow private usage of company machines. If people disregard that and share private info, you can still be guilty of a privacy violation if you expose the data. Sounds stupid at first, but it is one of those few laws in the digital space where smart people were involved.

That said, I agree that the accusation is unfair. Belarus is the worst dictatorship in Europe. It is like the USSR never failed. But you cannot forbid the usage of common infrastructure, even if you don't believe they want to scan for malware.

I hope no government will ever get a root cert trusted by browsers. It doesn't actually say in the article how the government evaded that problem. Or maybe users in Belarus are already trained to ignore those fat warnings about compromised TLS.