@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:
@CCWTech It looks like the usefulness of it was discussed here: https://mangolassi.it/topic/22519/linux-geoip-blocking
I'm not someone who finds racism in everything, but this just struck me as odd. Maybe I am totally off base.
A big former vendor here, xByte, lost TWO of their IT providers over these kinds of policies. They blocked "countries that speak Spanish" meaning anyone, that visits those countries for any purpose, or is detected as being in those countries even if they are not, would not only be blocked from xByte services, but provided with a screen that implied that their web hosting had failed, rather than been blocked. So they were willing to go out of their way to anti-market themselves, to convince would-be customers that their service was broken, to avoid getting them as customers. When asked about this, they doubled down that they had no interest in customers who might ever try to reach their sites from those regions. Foolish given that their entire IT team was in Costa Rica and blocked, and very upset about how they were treated prior to that outright blockage by "racial region".
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