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Comment by sersi | Hacker News Reader

Seems that this website blocks any access from HK completely through cloudflare...

Cloudflare making it easy to block entire countries, allow people to be lazy in protecting their websites and goes completely against the open web. Of course I could use a vpn but it's getting tiring that I have to do so more and more often.

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I'm used to government blocking websites and I see this kind of blocking as pure evil. VPN almost never turns off on my phone and my computer. That is, until I moved to a different country

What I can't understand is why people are willing to shut their websites from like half of the world. Especially Linux bloggers. Open source, "free as in freedom", right? These people should fight practices like that, not follow them.

Amazingly, the country I'm in right now is blacklisted on this website.

> Seems that this website blocks any access from HK completely through cloudflare...

Isn't it ironic for a website promoting "free" and "libre" software?

Blocked from India too. After reading your comment I thought Asia was blocked. But I could read after changing location to Japan with a VPN. Cloudflare straight up blocking countries instead of putting up a captcha.

Blocked from Kazakhstan too.

And (temporarily in) Cambodia.

same, in Siem Reap

Russia is blocked as well

yes, i tried from my home in Brazil and is blocked too, saying that i'm a attacker :)

Blocked from Paraguay, too.

Philippines too

Argentina too.

Taiwan too

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