Key phrase: "a year" If anybody is suggesting permanent bans of IPs, it's not me, at least not at a public level. I may very well choose privately to do that.

Key phrase: "a year" If anybody is suggesting permanent bans of IPs, it's not me, at least not at a public level. I may very well choose privately to do that. To clarify, I, personally chooses a blacklist policy. Not some other org. I think if you offload this onto any kind of external structure, it breaks again. ADD: We make publicly-available, second-by-second, how the internet is broken and invite all comers, including me and my blocklist, to help fix it. There's a huge commerical interest in NOT fixing the problem of random crap showing up, from dancing cats selling things to targeted inserted ads. I get it. We saw this same thing happen with adblockers. It's now going on with "free" VPNs. Can't fight that perverse incentive, so don't fight it.