Instead of just posting 'Tunisia' you made hundreds, maybe even thousands of people waste their time looking up an IP range in Google. That's just inconsiderate.
If people had minded wasting their time they wouldn't have wasted it in the first place. My comment makes perfect sense without the word 'Tunisia', hence, I didn't make anyone waste their time. But if I did, I am glad those who won't get my comment now have yours to save them those precious seconds. sigh
But it's funny, I try to be polite by not ignoring a comment, I get called "inconsiderate". You really can't please everyone.
I don't know about the political situation there, but that's just one of the hundreds of possible reasons the poster might want to refrain from directly naming the country.
Not respecting their decision to do so is at least equally inconsiderate.
Read my comment again, I specifically said "directly naming". "IP Block x.x.x.x/x" isn't exactly something you can search for, or even easy to understand for people outside of HN.
This obviously isn't about "anyone" knowing, as you said yourself
> If they didn't want anyone to know they would not have done that.
I actually didn't feel comfortable sharing that since it didn't really matter but I did it indirectly in a reply just out of curtesy.