Digital Scapegoats

TLDR: people living near the "default" MaxMind geoip points are screwed, because they get millions IP addresses (and abuse complaints accordingly)

This is what happens when you decide to work with "points" to describe things that are really "areas"/"ranges". With ranges, when you get a square that covers entire US it will be bluntly obvious that you cannot just target center of the area (or the corner, or something else). Unfortunately that is very rarely done, or done in the way that still suggests the center is somehow more important (eg GPS coordinates with large margin of error)

http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/