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1. zmmmmm+TI1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 21:32:04
>>ANewbu+(OP)
There's an opportunity for a service like CloudFlare here give people a simple toggle that manages geoblocks on legal liability factors. It's way too much for every organisation to individually track every country's laws day by day in case just by being accessible there you incur a liability. And it sounds like the UK would have just self-selected out of the list of "safe" countries.

If something like this was in widespread use it would have much more impact since countries would see whole swathes of the internet immediately go dark when they make stupid laws.

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2. bstsb+UJ1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 21:39:17
>>zmmmmm+TI1
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/security/sec...

  (ip.src.country eq "GB")
then take action "Block". i know what you mean by a simpler option though
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3. stingr+i32[view] [source] 2025-10-01 00:00:12
>>bstsb+UJ1
The point the parent is making is that you don’t have to manually keep track of the countries you need to block. You just tell Cloudflare what your website does / what type of laws may be problematic, and Cloudflare manages the blocklist automatically.

Makes a lot of sense actually that it’s surprising they don’t have this yet.

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4. stacks+mi2[view] [source] 2025-10-01 02:30:52
>>stingr+i32
My guess is liability factor. If they get it wrong, massive liability on their side especially since someone could be like "I told you X" and Cloudflare didn't think the law applied or not.

Better to put onus on the customer.

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5. _boffi+fl2[view] [source] 2025-10-01 03:04:03
>>stacks+mi2
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