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Let me get this straight an ISP is choosing to censor a website of it's own volition out of spite, and people are cheering for it?

This is a protest move, and arguably political. I don't want my ISP to have a tantrum. What if next time it decides that some party or movement doesn't fit it's views and block that?

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I think the context matters here. The ISP is demonstrating the dangers you've pointed out in site blocking by blocking a site that opposes site blocking -- that's genius. Why wouldn't people cheer? Clearly this is indicative that the ISP wouldn't support any kind of block in the future, even for material that doesn't support its views.

If your argument is that this should be put into law and enforced, I imagine this ISP would also agree with you.

Well, it's a small ISP and they've always been involved in Internet politics. Their customers know that, and probably chose them (at least in part) because they are political.

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