portion of the bitcoin community is going to reverse their decision on a fork that allow the devs to upload an IP black list.
There isn't any fork that allow devs to upload any IP black list, you are just parrot that repeat the first word that you hear without know the meaning.
Are you kidding?
https://github.com/bitcoinxt/bitcoinxt/commit/73c9efe74c5cc8faea9c2b2c785a2f5b68aa4c23The code has both a static list and a list that's downloaded when the node starts.
It starts with a blacklist of Tor exit nodes that allow when there is a heavy load on the network to prioritize transaction coming from Tor nodes.
In simpler terms. This allow to kick off certain transactions if the load remain for a certain period of time.