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APA Hotels in Tokyo censoring videos? (feddit.org)

submitted 22 hours ago by in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was staying at an APA Hotel in Tokyo and stumbled upon this by accident.

When watching videos on Youtube via screencast on the hotel TV it seems like they are blocking specific videos related to WW2 and Japan. I even was using a VPN but it seems like they block it via the screencast.

Has anyone else expierienced something similar?

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[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 1 points 18 hours ago

If it’s something like chromecast it’s not sending your screen locally to the device, it’s sending the source URL of the video itself, so VPN wouldn’t make a difference unless it was at the network layer the TV was using. That being said, did you try playing the same videos on your phone or computer without vpn? On cell? On their WiFi? If it doesn’t work at all on any it’s likely geo blocked as another commenter said. If it works on cell but not WiFi it’s likely their network is blocking them