We also value freedom of movement, or commerce or the right to bear arms, doesn't mean we let foreign spies sell weapons to domestic insurgents or let them roam across the border. Democratic freedoms are a contract with a democratic population, or democratic partners, not autocratic adversaries who will use them to undermine the very foundation they're built on.

The headline "RT turns to Peter Thiel's Rumble after Big Tech companies block the network" tells us that private companies blocked the network, not the government.