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Originally Posted by Mike L
That is completely untrue. Citizenship doesn't enter the picture. Any geographic restrictions that might exist are based entirely on the country where you're physically located at the time, not on nationality.
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In theory, maybe. In practice, stores implementing geographic restrictions often use other means to identify your location, usually based on your credit card (for which you need a bank account, for which you need to live in the country...). And there are reports of Amazon requiring passports or other identification from their US customers, so at the end the actual location doesn't seem to matter.
Geographic restrictions are silly, the way they are implemented is even sillier. It's like those tests that don't really evaluate your knowledge, but just your ability to pass the test[*]: geographic restrictions don't restrict based on the geographical location, but on your ability to bypass the restrictions
[*] This could be said of all tests, but there are some for which it is especially flagrant.