I have no idea where I’d get my hands on a bunch of phone books nowadays.

Have you tried a #2? The shitter is a perfect place.

For starters, it doesn’t work. It can’t.

We should have been fighting this long ago

It’s way more complicated than that. Companies are one thing, they go where the people are, and that’s Facebook. It’s pre-installed on every smartphone in the world. As for the rest of us, there’s no way to make a website anymore without someone ddosing it or griefing it or hacking it or whatever. The only companies with the resources to defend their platform are the big guys like meta, Amazon, Microsoft…you and I don’t stand a chance against even a small group of call center casuals in Vietnam or Bangalore. Defending a website on the modern internet requires several full-time employees. There’s literally nothing we can do about it.