[spoondan]

I don’t see what legal or technical argument you’re making.

Technically, of course you can identify IP ranges owned by certain entities and restrict their access. That’s trivial, so what do you mean when you say the internet doesn’t work like that?

Legally, there’s plenty of region locked content for copyright and censorship reasons. A distributor might region lock because they don’t have distribution rights in particular regions. Are you saying distributors can’t publish free content at all because they can’t choose who sees it but would be breaking copyright law to publish to everyone? Or a site might region lock because certain content is censored in particular countries. Can you not publish anti-regime articles because a totalitarian country is on the Internet?

The entire world isn’t and shouldn’t be held hostage to the most restrictive laws that exist in the world. And the answer isn’t blocking on the requesting end because that’s technically much harder and blocks much, much more content. So what am I missing?

Edit: Forgot to include the other end of the spectrum. If I, as an individual, host my own site on my own hardware with my own connection that I pay the bandwidth for, can I deny a suspected not network?