It's rather strange to see such shameless apologetic of Putinism on HN. Yeah right, let's give the government more power and control over the information, what could go wrong???!
And no, your claim that US has a firm grasp on what information reaches its people is laughable: you can host and serve any information critical of government without issues. The closest you had to putinism was when companies en masse started deplatforming Trump and his supporters in early 2021.