[kennend3]

Got to love Geoblocking, especially this one.

what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?

Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal?

Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.

[chasd00]

i bet you whoever wrote the rfp for the website copy/pasted most of it from some other rfp that listed "prevent login from outside the US" as a requirement since that's needed to comply with some regulations for apps storing data. Even though there's no login the contractor shrugged and "prevented _access_ from outside the US". I'll bet you lunch that's exactly what happened.

edit: and i'll add that the team who put the site together is long gone and the people who maintain content (if any) have no idea what geoblocking even is. So don't bother sending them an email...

[bcook]

> what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?

Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?

[mod]

Would it be common for a local government within a country to confirm to the law of another country?

Is there a compelling reason besides being friendly? Like treaties or something?

[kennend3]

A state tourism site complying with GDPR shoudn't be that challenging:

The UK GDPR sets out seven key principles: - Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. - Purpose limitation. - Data minimisation. - Accuracy. - Storage limitation. - Integrity and confidentiality (security) - Accountability.

Dont keep track of any user info and you should be OK?

Many of the blocked countries dont have GDPR regulations, so there is that.

There is also the vast majority of US government sites which are not geoblocked.

https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx - works just fine from Canada?