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		greyface- 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with th... RIRs don't prohibit out-of-region use of IP addresses or ASNs registered in their region. The country an IP is registered in is not necessarily the country it's being used in.

ranger_danger 50 days ago [–]

And they are routinely used in exactly this confusing fashion.

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