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This is going to make things worse for all kind of use cases that are legitimate but seem non-standard or marginal.

Heck, many websites I visit on the web cannot understand why I, a Ghanaian living in Ghana, might be interested in the service offered or the information therein. I am sometimes blocked for no good reason.

If you are in a third world country, the web is extra hostile. This is going make things worse.

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It doesn't even take being in a "third world country".

Plenty of US websites are blocking access from EU IP addresses because of our data protection laws.

Local news companies are the biggest offenders in this regard.

> This is going make things worse.

Isn't this for enterprises managing access to corporate resources?

I'm talking about the general direction this is taking.

I don't think once this is established in enterprises it is going to stop there.

That's not what the article advocates for though. This is about enterprise policy decisions for internal access.

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