Just saw a few articles today on how some western companies have launched marketing programs targeting Chinese for their web hosting services in U.S. There claim is that with all the recent ISP closures in China, many will look for hosting services outside of the country. To make it short, I think Not!

Have they forgotten about the Great “Firewall of China?” The practice of limiting bandwidth and blocking traffic all together to foreign sites? Sure, some Chinese ISPs were reckless to check whether their customers were hosting unedited forums (and were punished for it), but there are even more of these forums (in english) on the other side - and none of them are monitored!

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