One of my favorites! The baby likes it. The grandparents are confused by it.

Yeah, I'm really not seeing how a "virtual location" is any different from outright fraud.

It depends on whether the VPN is lying to you. Proton, for example, makes them quite explicit in the software and even lists them for you here: https://protonvpn.com/support/how-smart-routing-works and seems like NordVPN also has a page explaining that.

"Google kills Gemini Cloud Services"

I assume it would fail to compile, or error out, because of myriad conflicts throughout the body of laws.