Why is everyone acting like this is a normal thing for ISPs to do?
because you live in the US, aka the land of free speech where even
the NSA doesn't block sites at the drop for a hat iirc
(yet)roskomnadzor, russia's internet watch-dog agency, can
and does actually blacklist sites just for "containing information russian users don't need to see", and i stuff you not this forum's actually listed in there for that exact reason.
russian ISPs enforce that in direct proportion to how much they care, but they also like to just block sites at random because hurr (neither cracked.com's IP nor domain were listed on roskom's blacklist, and yet it's off-limits on my end)