I don't think it will be, it doesn't really match and it wouldn't really work very well frankly. Maybe you're right, but it seems like a horrible move (as in it would hurt them), even for them (they make mistakes all the time, but this?).

Also it's not an easy technological undertaking. They'd have to actually make something that isn't absolute dogshit for it to work, and I've not yet see the government do that on any large scale when it comes to web design or employment.

I mean, above all else, it would go totally against their MO. They like people having access to stuff they don't like, because they can track it all anyway, and use that to make lists of people that are against them. If they blocked it out, it would stop people like us from accessing this website (in theory, anyways, ofc that isn't really true in practice) and as such make it harder to find people that are of the kind of thinking to visit this website. As it stands, they likely know who all of us are in real life and have all of the forums infiltrated fully, monitored, and influenced.

What's more, their MO is more about indoctrination than prevention. Why should they care if people can access this website if they already have them mentally locked down? It would just validate us more than anything, which would risk their indoctrination more than leaving us up.

No, I think it's more about a scrambled excuse to fabricate an "oil shortage" and probably a cop-out to blame Russia. Who knows, though.