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Awareness. I will often see someone post a link to Hulu and be genuinely unaware that no-one outside of the US can view it.

You want to hurt the innocent to build awareness for your cause? In America, we call that terrorism!

But then again, we call everything terrorism.

Because they've shown little or no empathy about those unpleasant experiences?

So you have some kind of beef with HBO's business decisions. My heart doesn't bleed for you because I am uninvolved third party to your beef with HBO. I don't think that merits any kind of aggressiveness toward me. Leave me out of it. Complain to whoever won't take your money.

Because most Americans are unaware of how limiting content providers are once you connect from a non-US IP. A blunt dose of awareness would go a long way in helping people understand the situation.

And it's not really their fault, either. How would you know that the whitelist even exists if you're always on it?