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?
You expect everyone to just have a neutral opinion of every country and the majority views of its citizens?
I don’t care if an individual in Russia is ‘good’ because I have no way of verifying that so I block them from everything.
Chances are high that if my project/blog or whatever helps a Russian it’s someone who holds very different political beliefs so I would rather not.