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Geoblocking? I am in Brazil and all I see is this:

  The request is blocked.
  
  0kEE0YwAAAADSrOoEHVCAQrfsFyH2VJaQR1JVMzBFREdFMDgyMQBjZTgwMzljZS04NTZjLTRkYzktYjgwZC02MzlhMDg1MmY4Mzk=

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Brit here, also blocked, with a similar message, but to be fair, if that website had any good ancient artefacts on it i'd be over there to steal them in a flash, so maybe it's for the best.

Since it is a government website, I suspect that foreign IP have a strong historical correlation with mischief.

Particularly because mostly forgotten webpages like this one are an attractive nuisance for black hats, banning foreign IP’s was probably a best-practice argument.

There’s also the possibility that a sudden uptick in activity (HN slashsot effect) triggered an internal mechanism.

And politically, I suspect there wouldn’t be a lot of pushback to any of it.

But I could be wrong.

out of interest i tried the states main site https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx

works just fine from Canada?

Doesn’t surprise me that the portal isn’t geofenced because it is likely to be well maintained, monitored, and funded for business reasons.

Stare Archeology websites don’t have the same incentives for IT attention…I mean the one here isn’t even very “Web2.0”.

Interesting that the apparent base64 encoding doesnt decode to anything sensible. Sort of thing you'd see on a CTF challenge ...

What's the encoding and/or content all about?

Same getting blocked in Canada

Same. Too bad as I recently spent a couple of days motorcycling through Kentucky and there were some beautiful parts of that state.

Same

Or the UK

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