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Some services do this. I live in Indonesia at the moment and there are various Dutch websites I can't access: I can't view the website of a political party for example, and I can't access newyorkpizza.nl either to unsubscribe from their stupid newsletter emails (I just blackholed them, but still). I also couldn't view their data breach announcement from a few weeks ago. Some news websites block foreign access as well.

ACM also blocked a lot of Indonesian IP addresses (because "infiltrated by sci-hub" according to their support, but since carried-grade NAT is ubiquitous here you end up blocking vast swaths of the country).

All in all, it's really annoying.

Yeah, you're going to stop various bad actors with this – no denying that – but you're also going to block your own nationals who happen to be abroad. Especially for a lot of critical services (banks, gov't, etc.) it's pretty much a non-starter.



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