It's also a government demand: ratings, amount of locally produced content, taxes, etc.
Re:Working at Netflix 2017
by jmanderley on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:21AM
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Blocking VPNs is a government demand? I'm highly skeptical of this.
Further, they make it essentially impossible to to create a local routing rule to bypass the VPN for them alone. You're stuck whitelisting the whole of AWS.