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by brianwawok 537 days ago
If 90% of your problem users come from 1-2 countries, seems pretty sensible to block that country. I know I have 0 paying users in those countries, so why deal with it? Let them go fight it out doing bot wars in local sites
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Keep in mind, this is literally why stereotypes and racism exists. It’s the exact same process/reasoning.
No, racism would be “I won’t deal with customers of Chinese ethnicity irrespective of their country of operation”.

Blocking Chinese (or whatever) IPs because they are responsible for a huge amount of malicious behavior is not racist.

Frankly I don’t care what the race of the Chinese IP threat actor is.

You really might want to re-read my comment.