Independent of the political or legal questions being discussed in other threads, I feel like I should point out that YouTube ALREADY does this. I get recommen

Independent of the political or legal questions being discussed in other threads, I feel like I should point out that YouTube ALREADY does this. I get recommendations for CBC news, and other Canadian news channels and other Canadian content. Most of it is not notable because it's already part of my cultural experience of "Normal", but perhaps an American would look at it and think it was quaint. I do notice the opposite when i go to America and find TV commercials ridiculously over the top. A few years ago, I moved to a small European country for a couple of years where I didn't speak the language, and just by the nature of my Geolocation (and home country settings in my Google account), my YouTube recommendations were rife with content specific for that country. Either the EU already has this regulation in place, or YouTube believes that local recommendations are useful for engagement. For me personally, it was a mixed bag. It was interesting to see what the Algorithm thought the locals would enjoy, and it was somewhat culturally immersive. But it also ultimately was not interesting to my (decidedly North American) sensibilities. When I moved back to Canada, I was relieved to see my recommendations default to a North American focus.