Petitions are good, and the dev forum has been floating the idea, the issue is whether a current government would consider it, they seem to be hell bent on annoying the public and disregarding anything they may want at the moment.
Rule 34 is indeed now blocked in the UK. Wonder how long it will take for other sites to also be restricted. Annoying cause my VPN recently expired and I don't really make much use of it to justify another subscription.