Geo-blocking

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Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

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What Wikipedia says

Geo-blocking, geoblocking or geolocking is technology that restricts access to Internet content based upon the user's geographical location.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Geo-blocking”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Software: Alexander Finkhäuser (alex1702) & Nicklas Wiegandt (Nicklas2751) + Community Screenshot: PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk), GPLv3, via Wikimedia Commons.