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> That has nothing to with the choice of language

That is exactly my point. Localization isn't about choice of language and thus the choice of words of GP was wrong. He was talking about language, translation or internationalization. Localization is about adapting your website to a different local target market. The whole premise is of course that the company wants to do business in that area and then they have to follow the local law.

My comment was a response to the GP stating he wants it to be the users choice to set their location, but a company doing business in different countries can't just allow the user to choose with which entity it wants to interact through their website (Netflix being a prime example).

I explicitly said Arabic and "might" as I only know it's a problem in some countries in that geographic region, which is probably due to religious reasons, but I explicitly didn't want to bind it to religion. The biggest Muslim country is afaik Indonesia and they are not nearly as strict in these regards except for maybe the Aceh region.