There are a few countries out there that people love to hate. Sometimes they choose to block all visitors from those countries to their websites. What is your opinion on the practice? Note that I am not talking about blocking for legal or copyright reasons, or about blocking done by the countries’ authorities or ISPs, only by the websites themselves.
Does your opinion change depending on whether the website in question is a personal website or blog, versus a website for a free/libre/open-source software project, versus a public service (e.g. a Fediverse instance)? Would you stop using your Lemmy instance if you learn that it is blocking visitors from certain countries?
Who does that “for personal or political reasons”? I know that it’s sometimes done because there are a lot of hacking attempts but few to none genuine users from certain countries.
“For personal or political reasons” means as a form of boycott or similar. Not to stop hacking or other abuse, not for legal or cost reasons, but just because of personal animosity towards a country.
Kinda depends on the specific reasons.