It's more like some people saw an opportunity in selling China-style online censorship to other governments. They just needed convincing stories to sell.

Stories of children being groomed with internet porn and calling for mass censorship. Stories of the stars of internet porn regretting it and calling for mass censorship. Stories of terror attacks being organized on the internet. Stories of awful chatrooms.

So now anyone wanting to oppose your censorship is a nazi islamist pedophile jerking off to CSAM in their mother's basement.

And it won't end with banning the most disgusting and gory lolicon hentai. It won't even stop with banning porn. It will end with things being banned because some Trump, Orbán, Putin-class dictator didn't like it, and the chatbot spat out some reasonable sounding argument that supported it beyond "the glorious leader didn't like this".

I'm starting to be a fan of countries walling off vs the alternative. To be clear, I'm not for it. I would prefer open internet. But what's worse is countries trying to project their jurisdiction across the globe.

If you don't like that I don't comply with the laws of places where I don't live, block my site. I don't block you. You block me. I shouldn't even have a responsibility to know what your laws are to know if I should block you. It's your laws, your job.

And if a country finds it easier to block off the whole external internet, fine. That's still better than someone who I didn't elect thinking they can tell me how I must do my job. Certainly better than 152 different governments and municipalities trying to do it at the same time.

So we should make it clear. When someone in a foreign country visits your site, you are not operating in that country. The user is visiting yours.