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?
Information wants to be free, but you have to play the game that’s on the table
I can’t fault a website for blocking visitors as required by their political bs, but I can strongly disagree with that political bs where I live. If any web site is blocking more visitors than required, I’m not going there anyway
I think there’s recent age verification requirements among certain part of the US, or at least certain sites recently added hoops to jump through, effing fascists - I’m strongly opposed anyway
I go back and forth about privacy issues. First impression is my name and email are none of your effing business. My second reaction is I’ll just generate a unique forwarding email address with no connection to my data. Then they require a valid phone number, dammit