So for this week, I experienced something that I never have experienced before in my life: I was unable to access something on the internet because it wasn’t available in my country. Maybe that says something about how America-centric my world view is, but I think It is also interesting that the idea of country specific access is still a thing in this day and age. I know that some countries have some websites blocked for political reasons; for example many American websites are blocked in China because they don’t want their people to admire the western lifestyle, they want them to focus solely on nationalistic and communistic ideals. But for more democratic countries in the world, why are things not available in every country that is able to access the website itself? I think of the internet as being this “locationless medium”, it exists in cyberspace and shouldn’t be limited by any physical location. The world wide web extends across the world, so why can’t I access all the things on it? Is it a technical limitation that may be solved in the coming years? Or is it an exclusivity thing, limiting some access only to IP addresses from certain countries? I don’t know myself, but it would be interesting to find out.