Why can't they discover the IP addresses of the backend and block those?
It wouldn't work very well, but then they won't ask again next time.
It wouldn't work very well, but then they won't ask again next time.
As such, any CF server not within the nation in question would effectively be a circumvention tool.
Maybe Cloudflare has an Ethernet cable between the server in question and itself, but that seems unlikely to me. There is probably some ISP in the middle that will play ball, right?
I'd imagine that CF's first act would be to remove any of the "offending" content from the country, at which point BGP blocking would no longer do anything.