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The irony of trying to block content/visitors based on country, while publishing on a platform called the "World Wide" web. IP address blocks that roughly corre
by ryandrake 3mo ago
The irony of trying to block content/visitors based on country, while publishing on a platform called the "World Wide" web. IP address blocks that roughly correspond with geographic regions is kind of a design flaw.
- skinfaxi 3mo agoIs it a design or implementation flaw?
- embedding-shape 3mo agoThat's what happens when you have idealistic nerds implementing a vision of what they want , rather than the typical software that is designed and built almost like an representation of the organization that built it, i.e Conway's Law.
- lostmsu 3mo agoThis comment sounds differently when you remember the Internet is from DARPA.
- embedding-shape 3mo agoBut then hopefully people also remember that WWW != The Internet and that WWW didn't come from DARPA at all but from CERN.
- red-iron-pine 3mo agoTCP/IP is ARPA -- wasn't DARPA then; is why it was called "ARPANET" the internet was, as everyone knows, invented Al Gore
- ragall 3mo agoThere's no irony. A given name does not constitute a mandate to use it any particular way.
- layer8 3mo ago“Web” implies a structure. And the internet traffic travels physically from country to country. Not being bound to geographical regions is an illusion.