Anyone who has operated a public webserver knows that the vast majority of the rabid, robots.txt ignoring hyperscrapers are from Chinese autonomous systems
I'm not shocked. ASN blocking is well-known among people who I can easily called experts (veterans which can set up a reasonable-ish firewall from base principles) and ASN control is exposed in major cloud firewalls, but younger people (except those who were trained with deep networking skills) don't really understand ASNs for some reason.