zerocrates 12 hours ago

They're blocking IPs that look Mississippi-ish. I assume just using Maxmind or some other IP geolocation database.

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swiftcoder 11 hours ago

Badly. Anyone whose IP has recently been geolocated in that state will be swept up in the ban (and anyone with a VPN can evade it)

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  • criley2 7 hours ago

    They don't actually care about the block or ban, they just want to put in enough token effort that a judge in the area will feel that it was reasonably done. It's performative for the legal system.

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    • bbarnett 2 hours ago

      No, not performative or token.

      Blocking via geoip is a reasonable, best effort method in this case. It's doing a best effort to comply.

      So not merely for performance without true compliance, or tokenism, which courts really frown upon.

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edm0nd 9 hours ago

Its actually really simple but its not perfect.

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