You'd be within your rights, sure. But you would also be a going back and violating your own ideals.

So, sure, it's her site, her rules, but I think it's fair to expect someone to uphold their principals and be disappointed when they don't.

Your cookies are not important for the scientific world, and she is NOT the baker of the Scientific papers, just a publisher, and since it's not her content she has even less rights to block a country from partially self made work.

Don't you see the irony in it?

>...to remove all barriers in the way of science (but don't name insects after me)

I can even understand her anger: she's been harassed with lawsuits in multiple countries and companies have probably had her personally investigated in those efforts. Paranoia isn't really even the appropriate word in that case.

But it's still an extreme overreaction and contradiction of her ideals to block an entire country over one person's insult.