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Tangentially related:
Somebody created a github containing domains he thought should be blocked: https://github.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists
A year later I bought a domain that had expired under my country TLD. It turns out that domain for some reason was previously added to that list.
Now, as you can see, the man behind that Github repo has decided to archive that repo and therefore make it read only.
As you can tell from both pull requests and issues on that repo, people has asked him to remote legitimate domains (e.g. *.urbandictionary.com). But those calls remain unanswered. It is fruitless to contact the author.
So this random dude causes real problems for legitimate business and individuals and we should just accept it?
Obviously he doesn't act on friendly geek requests. It seems lawyering up would be the only recourse in this situation. I find it analogous to somebody standing on a soap box in a village and announcing: "Don't trust James. Don't trust Mary either. There's problems with Charles" and James, Mary, and Charles have no way of stopping his libel.
I don't have the funds for legal action, but it is obviously wrong that he can announce "these domains are bad" and offer no way of fixing mistakes. He should take down the repo, but oh that sweet sweet Github karma probably discourages him from doing so.