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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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What's the point of your comment? I doubt anyone here would just block countries on random from accessing their servers. The tool doesn't seem to promote such behaviour either.
Yeah, back when the war with Russia and the Ukraine started I've seen people post tutorials about how to block people in Russia from accessing their blog and self-hosted services. So just for political reasons. I don't think this makes the world a better place.
Same with countries where lots of attacks originate from. I think a better approach would be to block offending address ranges if possible, not directly block countries and all the people who live there.
I don't think something needs to directly promote bad behaviour. Sometimes just making it easy, is enough to warrant a disclaimer to think before applying it.
Totally agree! This will isolate people from accessing useful information.