[dleskov]

Just want to make one thing clear: in this particular case the request was to block a specific URI. It is the (smaller) ISPs that do not have a technology to block an URI and the (bigger) ISPs that do not bother to employ that tech who block entire sites by IP addresses.

[splix]

1. was blocked by large countrywide ISPs, like Beeline and Domru 2. Github uses SSL, and there is no way to block specific URI under https://