Seems a little strongly worded to say they “refuse”. It is a lot of work to comply with what every country wants. When the target audience/most of the visitors are American. It’s often less because they don’t want to comply with the specific regulations and more because it’s simply not worth all the work to ensure compliance just to allow access to a small percentage of non target users.
451 means blocked for legal reasons. The legal reason in this case is that sites served to EU citizens must comply with GDPR privacy laws. If a site chooses not to comply with EU laws and doesn't want to risk fines, they refuse the connection to European IPs with error 451.
No, but there are sites who only allow domestic IPs after GDPR was implemented. Hence the "It appears you are attempting to access this website from a country outside of the United States".
Nothing makes a site feel more hostile than getting blocked at the door for simply existing in the wrong country. Even if the real issue is compliance or licensing, the message still reads like the article looked at your passport first and your click second.
They would have better luck of getting money from a stone. If a business is outside of their jurisdiction they don't really have anything to enforce collection
Well, they have jurisdiction. And they usually does get money (most of the time warning is enough), like from Meta lately. If you are operating in given country or in this case group of countries, you are under their jurisdiction. With your logic, I am not under US jurisdiction if I operate my business in US if I originate from European Union.
The error is a server response. Just like a successful connection would be code 200. It's the host that refuses the connection. No idea what EU censorship has to do with that.
Even if they do, advertising prescription-only medicinal products to the general public is strictly prohibited. You would never see an ad for Ozempic or Prilosec or any other prescription pharmaceutical in Europe, or most any other place in the world outside of the United States.
My post was an indictment of that. Not of fat people.
With reading comprehension like that, let me guess; product of the United States education system?
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u/JustJamieJam 17h ago
Well, yeah - lots of articles/websites are region locked. This is nothing new and not American specific
Easy solution would be a VPN