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Re:Ask HN: Why is HN predominated by pro-ChineseCommunistPar... by r721 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:51AM (#21201002)
By the way, I just noticed this:

>Traffic by countries

>United States 36.66%

>China 13.19%

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Re:Ask HN: Why is HN predominated by pro-ChineseCommunistPar... by dang on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:15AM (#21201123)
That's wildly inaccurate. When I ran the numbers, China was less than 1%.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is HN predominated by pro-ChineseCommunistPar... by yorwba on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @06:58AM (#21201907)
Did you notice a drop in traffic when the Great Firewall started blocking HN?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is HN predominated by pro-ChineseCommunistPar... by dang on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:47PM (#21205776)
When was that?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is HN predominated by pro-ChineseCommunistPar... by yorwba on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:14PM (#21206137)
Since I'm no longer in China, I rely on GreatFire Analyzer to check: https://en.greatfire.org/https/news.ycombinator.com

According to that data, it started in August, which is also when people started to notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599249

(Edit: just noticed you were in that thread. I think it was the first; at least I can't find any others with this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... )

The block doesn't seem to be absolute, as some of GreatFire's servers still occasionally get through. Based on previous experience, I guess it's location-dependent, but can't say for sure.

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