Ask HN: Is HN blocking traffic from Cuba?

5 points by endergame 2 years ago | 5 comments

I woke up, and as I usually do, I opened HN while I drink my coffee. But this time I got this message: "Sorry, you have been blocked. You are unable to access ycombinator.com"

comprev 2 years ago |

Perhaps related? Readers from Iran were having the same issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38943023

cpach 2 years ago |

You might want to reach out to the admins to see if they can resolve this issue somehow. The email is in the footer.

HTH!

endergame 2 years ago | |

These are regulations that many sites adopt in accordance with the sanctions imposed by the United States government against some countries, including Cuba.

cpach 2 years ago | | |

Yes. But AFAIK, HN has never had such a policy. AFAICT this blocking was introduced very recently when HN started to use CloudFlare in order to mitigate a DDoS attack. Therefore I thought it might be a good idea to bring it to the admins’ attention.