Your point is valid, but as you see, some individuals are all the time pushing this "the big brother is watching us" agenda all the time.
Pushing their opinion at such frequency, aggressively, they do look like a foil heads here.
There are some IPs which should be whitelisted.
For example google - https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json
34.126.178.96/28
Those are some impressive numbers.
What are the server demands to hold such traffic of yours? I see software stack, would be interesting to see hardware, if its not secret.
Well it's called "consequences" but as true USSR you are trained to blame only others and not yourself or your government.
This has nothing to do with the topic. Those countries were occupied by USSR.