Not a response to your email, but the reaction in
general strikes me
as very inconsistent. With China they have been censored, they try and
use TOR, and we block them, and say for years that there is
regrettably nothing we can do about this situation. UK gets blocked
for a day and we are talking about changing our IP based block
systems? I know the technical details of the block are a little
different, but not *that* different. Maybe the people that are saying
this though have always opposed this system, and this is just more
reason in their minds. I hope that's the case. :)
There is a big difference between an intentional block of the whole
site and a block of one page with unintended consequences affecting
the whole site.