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From a european ISP standpoint: the introduction of a systemic weakness is a violation of Art. 32 GDPR. We just can't do it.

Classic double-bind. GDPR is more important than Australia to us, so we just block all access from and to austrialia. We have 195.000 affected webhosting customers (domain, email, website, servers), btw.

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> so we just block all access from and to austrialia

Please don't do this. The internet does not respect borders, and there's absolutely nothing positive that can come from changing that.

By blocking Australia you're just screwing over ordinary Australian people who probably don't agree with what their politicians have decided.

Maybe that's necessary to push some resistance among the common Australian.

It's not OK to make ordinary people's lives difficult just to further your own political interests, regardless of how noble those interests might be.

I am not following, why are you concerned about Australian law as a n European isp. Why would you block Australia?

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