I suspect it is probably due to the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Given the extensive new requirements for websites to protect the privacy of EU citizens, some website that don't want to comply or can't guarantee all their third party content will comply have simply chosen to block EU citizens.
You can easily bypass it with a VPN, or even more simply, using a US based internet archive site to archive the page and then read it that way. I've done that for you here:
https://archive.is/zBSGV