[caption id="attachment_70047" align="alignright" width="292"] Wordfence Country Blocking[/caption] Russia & Belarus are blocked here This site uses Wordfence to block traffic from the Russian Federation and Belarus. It's sad to have to block many good Russian people from access to relatively trivial content like mine. I see this blocking as doing my bit, however small it might seem. If millions of us do 'our bit' in equally small ways it will soon add up to a lot - be that depriving the Russian state of money or encouraging the good people of Russia to carefully vent their anger at an illegal war, war crimes and a threat to life across Europe. Buying the software and loss of other revenues will probably only cost me a few hundred pounds. A very small price to pay in the grand scheme of things. Please feel free to share any other sites you know of that ban Russian traffic as a result of the Ukrainian War. I'm personally interested in politics but really try to avoid it on this site. At the same time, I also want to avoid being frazzled by a nuclear explosion. Overly dramatic, I know. Maybe it's just me? Consequences? an hour or so later 12 hours later 24 hours later, a pattern of attacks since this post was published What I learnt Wordfence requires all their customer to use a premium licence in order to ban Russian traffic. In my opinion, Wordfence seems to be profiteering from this, albeit in a small way. That said, Wordfence has given Ukrainian sites (ending TLD:.ua) free access to the premium software to mitigate against hacking. Google's search engine will penalise my site because I block an entire country indiscriminatorily. #Sigh. My hosting service Krystal couldn't seem to help but said I could achieve the same end goal with Cloudflare (widely used) No sports watch company has yet bricked their devices for Russian users No sports app company has yet bricked its platform for Russian users No sports platform has yet turned off its service in Russia Adidas said it is temporarily shutting down operations in Russia and suspending online sales in the country in response to Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine. Nike, Apple, Wiggle and Decathlon have done similar. What have you done? [gallery type="rectangular" size="medium" columns="2" ids="70098,70100,70099,70097"] [caption id="attachment_69903" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Slava Ukraini [Image|pexels][/caption] I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share. pic.twitter.com/6gyVRhgpFV — Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) March 17, 2022
