He's not lying. I got the ability to post within hours of my site being posted by just Tweeting it. But the be fair, I also didn't know that's how it worked and had to ask Ryan on Twitter before it happened.
I run Cryptbin.com, one of the sites on the banned list. As a result of the ban we have seen our traffic surge, with roughly a 1000% increase in traffic from India today alone.
Interesting to note is that we also own the domain cryptb.in (a TLD from India) and that has not been banned. However, it is merely a redirect so it does not provide an alternative entrance to the site. We use it only for short URL's on public pastes.