[ryandrake]

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.

[embedding-shape]

That'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]

This comment sounds differently when you remember the Internet is from DARPA.

[embedding-shape]

But 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]

TCP/IP is ARPA -- wasn't DARPA then; is why it was called "ARPANET"

the internet was, as everyone knows, invented Al Gore

[ragall]

There's no irony. A given name does not constitute a mandate to use it any particular way.

[layer8]

“Web” implies a structure. And the internet traffic travels physically from country to country. Not being bound to geographical regions is an illusion.

[skinfaxi]

Is it a design or implementation flaw?