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Ability to block or allow certain geographical regions from displaying our content
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I believe one should be able to block certain geographical regions from displaying our content, for privacy or targeting reasons
Describe the solution you'd like It would be great to have an option in the settings where one could block or allow certain geographical regions from displaying our content
Describe alternatives you've considered Right now, none of the most used social media apps have this kind of option
Sounds like it would just encourage scraping. Also GPS readings can be spoofed, and IP blocks can be proxied. Sounds like an extremely laborious feature because.. why would you want this?
Youtube and many media distributors do this. It's common across many industries. I'm for regional coding, but at what cost and ROI?
Are you trying to defend copyright systems that punish people simply because of where they live?
Youtube and many media distributors do this. It's common across many industries. I'm for regional coding, but at what cost and ROI?
Its doesn't work. I can still access US only content from anywhere with my VPN. It only deters people who dont know how to use a proxy, which is growing smaller and smaller. Also, youtube only regionlocks copyrighted content. Even then, youtube mirror sites exist which basically act like a proxy but dont need any extra software. Why would Twitter need this?
Are you trying to defend copyright systems that punish people simply because of where they live?
I don't have any political or economic agenda , I just think this feature would be helpful If for example you live in a country that has deep trouble with crime and extortion like I do. But your raised an important point worth of more thinking.
I'm developing a proprietary system that has a similar purpose, but it works with document verification. If I may suggest, instead of creating a blacklist, which is easily circumvented, you could create a whitelist of phone numbers. In other words, only authorizing people with verified phone numbers from certain countries. It's still possible to fake, but it's more effective than traditional methods of geolocation. If I were to implement it, I would use geolocation consistency techniques. Where users who frequently change their geolocation in short periods of time are considered inconsistent and have suspicious location activity. Thus, any behavior that depends on geolocation would not rely on their geolocation.
Additionally, it is possible to cross this with the inconsistency of the language used by the user. It is more laborious but reinforces the accuracy of the technique. Let's say a user is geolocated in China yesterday, US today and Turkey tomorrow, but for 3 months they communicated exclusively in Spanish, the language could be used to increase the accuracy of flagging the user's geolocation as unreliable.