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Netflix, Hulu, HBO website can be accessed in China, but they just don't provide any content by geo-blocking. They need a license to hosting shows. Azure defin
by est 4y ago
Netflix, Hulu, HBO website can be accessed in China, but they just don't provide any content by geo-blocking. They need a license to hosting shows.
Azure defintely operates in China https://www.microsoft.com/china/azure/index-en.html https://www.microsoft.com/china/azure/index-en.html
Twitch works from time to time depends on which unfortunate AWS IP address it streams on.
Zoom isolating China as a standalone market
Apple iCloud has the local version
For Steam, there's a HUGE Chinese player base, but steamcommunity.com is blocked
Some of the websites you mentioned were "collateral damange" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom
- iamflimflam1 4y agoJust as a nitpik - there are Azure regions in China. But it's complicated. Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Azure China) is a physically separated instance of cloud services located in China. It's independently operated and transacted by Shanghai Blue Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. ("21Vianet"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing 21Vianet Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd..
- est 4y agoEvery cloud provider is like that. No matter CN ones or US ones. In fact every book, game, movie is like that. There's always a special standalone CN version.
- blackhaz 4y agoThe New Azure
- rfoo 4y agoThe real Azure and AWS is accessible in China, too. In fact, that's the easiest reliable way to bootstrap from "I'm in China and have no censorship-circumvent tools" to accessing the real Internet. Just go to Azure or AWS and get a VM.