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Did they really? Can’t we scrape chinese or russian internet just as well as western internet? Honest question. I know they have firewalls, but these are one s

• mike_hearn 2y ago
  Bandwidth in and out of the country is heavily throttled in both directions and packet filtering applies on both. It's very hard to crawl the Chinese internet from the west and it has always been that way. If you want to do it you have to do the crawl from inside China, and then you're open to having your datacenters raided and software stack stolen (this isn't a theoretical concern).