I know there's probably some US sanctions list somewhere which the company had to adhere to. But experiencing it in Georgia, where streets are covered with Ukrainian flags and people are very open with their opinion on the war is just surreal
Supposedly Georgia asked to be part of UE since the Ukraine invasion so it somehow implies at the very least empathy towards Ukraine and not support for the war.
Having said that and taking into account that IP Geolocation is a fantasy and not something that really work reliably in practice, I would totally understand that some people living in Georgia would be geolocalized in Russia because their ISP is a russian company or is using IPs associated with Russia.
I am regularly geolocalized by some websites more that 3000km away from my home. My ISP headquarters and datacenters are in a different country and I guess some of the IP range they use are geolocalized there.
Yes, I know :) I don't think IP geolocation is so poor that it'd put Georgian residents into Russia. Could be wrong though, of course.
it being a company that estimates the location based on publicly available information like "This ASN belongs to this corporate entity which is registered in this country/related to this association" and so on.
There is no official hashmap with "IP => Geographical Location", they're all guesses and estimates.