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I vote sites block France.
On that note, how would one go about blocking all visitors from a geographic region?
GeoIP lookup. Pornhub did it recently to protest certain states' laws that would require them to check IDs of visitors.
It isn't very accurate. I live in Idaho, and my phone's geoip shows up all over the United States. Currently it says Utah, last time I checked.
Well, short of trusting the users themselves to volunteer their location, it's the best we've got.
Think of us poor French citizens stuck with this shitty government
Take my vote too.