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It’s important to remember that many governments probably planned for this from day one. Free speech is one of the things totalitarian regimes fear the most. I can imagine a dictator saying “I want to get in on this internet thing, but I absolutely must be able to shut it down if things get uncomfortable for me.”
I would think that a “kill switch” was planned for and installed before anything else.