Well sanctions generally affect the average citizen the hardest already.

It's not like government or military leaders are the ones that can't get basic medical supplies or food in a sanctioned country.

Why can’t they spin up a blog? Also, as an American, I don’t think those FAANG places are a safe space for “expressing opinions freely”. The boys (bots) will come.

An independent blog is easily banned. In fact, most of them are already. Platforms like Facebook host millions of pages and use https so it's not possible to ban individual pages, only the whole thing. And they've been hesitant to ban whole social networks because of possible discontent

It's a lot easier to DDOS a blog than it is to DDOS facebook.