&gt; &quot;Brick and mortar&quot; companies deal with this stuff. Why should the tech industry be exempt?<p>&quot;Brick and mortar&quot; companies decide where to lay their bricks. You put a website on the internet and it&#x27;s on <i>the whole internet</i>. In practice you can&#x27;t even restrict who can access it, as Netflix can attest.<p>Suppose I don&#x27;t agree with the laws in X country, or they conflict with the law in the country I&#x27;m physically in. Is it really going to satisfy anybody if I put &quot;may not access this service from X country&quot; in the terms of service somewhere, implement some fig leaf of a system to prevent access from there that everyone and their mother can bypass in five seconds (or the bypass ends up built into web browsers), and then millions of people from that country access it anyway?<p>How does that help anybody vs. just letting the service operate under the laws of the country where it physically exists and letting the users decide if they want to patronize a service that operates under that jurisdiction&#x27;s laws? (Unless the goal is to increase the adoption of Tor and other anti-censorship software?)