The answer to the question in the title is "no", and the reason for this - which you get to if you read far enough into this article - is that geowalling is not open access. Geowalling is the practice of blocking access to 'open' content by location. If you're in the wrong country, you don't get access. As the author notes, geowalling would require that authors give up their copyright, that licensing would have to change, and funders would have to give up their opposition to 'hybrid' publishing (that is, charging subscription fees for 'open' content). The article is in response to a Times Higher Education report quoting Jean-Claude Burgelman, the European Commission's open access envoy, who floated the idea before saying "in a digital world that argument doesn't make sense".
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