The moment Google adhered to the first Roskomnadzor (or whatthefuck is its name) request they become gatekeepers.

After a certain point, simply due to the number of people on your platform, you become someone to be influenced / controlled / watched out for / a target / a friend / an enemy.

And other control brokers, large and small, will try to influence you. (And - to a degree - you can't escape it, you will be influenced. Now you have to counter it, embrace it, ignore it, understand it, downplay it, dodge it, amplify it, etc.)

Size (of potential influence) makes organizations, platforms, people targets, not "gatekeeping".