A little background info:

Russia’s been sponsoring one of its oligarchs’ business by eliminating their competition.

First, they restricted YouTube’s speed to an unusable state to force people to switch to RuTube (they didn’t)

Now they’re trying to force people to switch from WhatsApp (and potentially Telegram) to MAX, which they want to be Russia’s version of WeChat.

Add the fact that our politicians are obsessed with controlling all of the media and you’ll get the gist of it.