The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation

An article highlights a study on sanctions-driven geoblocking, especially affecting users in Cuba: across the Tranco Top 10K, researchers found 546 domains blocking access at various network layers, with 88% offering no informative notice and some serving blockpages with HTTP 200 responses, underscoring poor transparency and ineffective mitigation; the piece urges clearer policies and provider practices to reduce fragmentation and better align internet freedom goals with sanctions compliance.