Comment by swiftcoder

5 months ago

Badly. Anyone whose IP has recently been geolocated in that state will be swept up in the ban (and anyone with a VPN can evade it)

They don't actually care about the block or ban, they just want to put in enough token effort that a judge in the area will feel that it was reasonably done. It's performative for the legal system.

  • No, not performative or token.

    Blocking via geoip is a reasonable, best effort method in this case. It's doing a best effort to comply.

    So not merely for performance without true compliance, or tokenism, which courts really frown upon.

    • >> judge in the area will feel that it was reasonably done

      > No ... It's doing a best effort to comply

      Generally when you repeat my statement back to me, you do so in agreement.

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