It's like local US news websites blocking European users over GDPR concerns.
I don't know if you said this sarcastically, but I have a friend in Switzerland who reads U.S. news websites via Web Archive or Archive IS exactly because of that.
Accessing some of these news sites returns CloudFlare's "not available" in your region message or similar.
Fact is that its very unlikely they would ever face any issues about having it not blocked.