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I have never seen this from a US website before:

We’re Sorry! This website is unavailable in your location.

Error 451 It appears you are attempting to access this website from a country outside of the United States, therefore access cannot be granted at this time.

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I spent a couple years in Europe and found that most local news websites in the US blocked access entirely. My guess was that they all share IT resources / policies of the conglomerate news corp, who decided it would be cheaper to simply ignore traffic from GDRP countries.

I have the same experience. I assumed it was a mix of (as you say) not wanting to deal with EU rules, but also not wanting to deal with licensing concerns (eg "do I have the right to show this media in this country").

Part of why I assumed the latter is that sports, in particular, had a high occurrence of "this content isn't available where you are" blocks.

Great point, I had never thought of that!

Except I'm not in Europe.

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