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You are not very familiar with this Internet we are on, are you? There are geoblocks everywhere for so many things. For reasons from fraud prevention to politics to every reason in between (e g. do you think that middle east governments didn't scan all emails for objectionable content in early Internet days? Do you think anyone realistically suggested cutting off the links they paid for because of this?)


Censorship is wrong in every case, even more wrong when the motivation is extortion. History has taught us this.


Ok, are you ascribing a motive of extortion here? You seem to be repeating an awfully simple principle but not making clear what you think the context is. Could you explain what your perspective is here?




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