The attack on knowledge by aggressor states. Why?

The sentence above are largely rhetorical and perhaps it would be fairer to ask how these attacks are reacted to.

The British Library recently suffered a cyber attack by a criminal gang (I have done work on the Russian involvement with such criminal gangs but other than disruption it is difficult to see what could be obtained by Putin's government) and their personnel's data was dumped on the Dark Web when they refused to pay ransom. The BLs chief executive expressed the view that such people were against everything which libraries represent: openness, empowerment, access to knowledge." Such attacks have been slowly rising. Bostin city library was shut down in a ransomware attack in 2021. Toronto Public Library suffered a massive cyber attack in October. The city responded by declaring that such attacks were directed essentially towards civilised values.

While these attacks are criminal ones, Putin funded many of these criminal cyber groups and eventually they helped construct Russian misinformation and began working directly with Russia.

Are these actions to do with authoritarian states? Traditionally the Romans are suspected of destroying the Alexandrian Library. Generally, information is cut off in religious societies. Information dealing with understanding reality and the senses is attacked.

The bombing of Ukrainian information centres, archives, schools, museums, universities have been noted in the present war as in Gaza. Is the fate of Hypatia to be renewed?

Hypatia

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They attacked her in mid exploration Cutting away her golden thoughts As they cut away her flesh, destroying A mind that they couldn’t destroy in Debate, a sparkling old woman Whose thoughts were spun from steel.

The screaming mob desecrated her tiny form Dragging it into the dust, through the rubbish And shit. Tearing off her clothes The Parabalani exposed her to celestial winds crossing The arora, rubbing Spoilt Alexandrian soil into her unexplored vagina. She did not die as a philosopher, calculating and Learning, but, torn apart, the old woman Screamed out for her father, Terrified, in sacrificial pain so much worse Than beheadings and crucifixion. Her modesty, Kept for 60 years, mutilated by a 1000 killers in a single Minute.

Her head bounced in the forum, Her arms thrown to the 4 corners, Her soul stamped into the gutter, As the new religion cried out for tolerance. In a morning thinking became forbidden Books burnt, laughs ignored and fires built for heretics.

Hypatia was a female philosopher in Alexandria in the 4th century who was torn apart by a Christian mob, her skin scraped from her bones.