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Geoblocking restricts media by your physical location

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The global internet is actually heavily segregated by invisible digital borders. Media conglomerates use your IP address to violently lock you out of viewing specific content simply because of where you live, enforcing archaic regional licensing laws on a supposedly borderless digital network.

Geoblocking restricts media by your physical location
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