Even Russia will not be able to imprison everyone :)

Although maybe that action will suddenly motivate SMS companies to find ways of actually dealing with SMS spam properly.

You should check out how gulag worked

I don’t think your comment makes any sense. Yes gulags imprisoned a lot of people, actually a lot of heavily educated individuals but still it was not the majority of the population.

What Russia in that case would do they would probably either implement some spam detection or just flat out disable SMS messaging in the country.

Vaguely reminds me when US offered a bounty for turning people in in Iraq so people would turn in their neighbors they didn't like despite them not actually being guilty of anything.

Whole lotta people ended up in gitmo that were actually innocent that way.

This is obviously going to be a very dark decade for Ukraine but less obvious is how bad things are going to get in Russia if they can pull the curtain over it like this.

Worst thing US did to Iraq invasion protestors domestically was put them on the "no fly" list which is abusive but trivial in comparison.

I wonder who is waiting in the wings after Putin and if they are going to be better or worse.