It definitely works, since you’re externalizing your annoyance to people you literally won’t ever hear from because you blanket banned them based. Most of them will just think your site is broken.
This isn't coming from nowhere though. China and Russia don't just randomly happen to have been assigned more bad actors online.
Due to frosty diplomatic relations, there is a deliberate policy to do fuck all to enforce complaints when they come from the west, and at least with Russia, this is used as a means of gray zone cyberwarfare.
China and Russia are being antisocial neighbors. Just like in real life, this does have ramifications for how you are treated.
It seems to be a choice they’re making with their eyes open. If folks running a storefront don’t want to associate with you, it’s not personal in that context. It’s business.
