Comment by hogwasher

I've seen that a lot more often lately because of AI botnets. Supposedly the bots come (or appear to) from some countries more than others, and sometimes websites are just banning a whole country because the load from bots is so bad they it outweighs a small number of real human visits.

Could also be an "instead of implementing legally mandated ID verification, we will simply block all traffic from any country that requires it" thing.