The Cost of Paid Peering with Chinese ISPs

Thu Apr 2 03:46:19 UTC 2020

On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:47:22 -0700, Matt Corallo said:

> No one suggested it isnâ€™t censorship, youâ€™re bating here. Not deploying
> enough international capacity is absolutely a form or censorship deployed to
> great avail - if international sites load too slow, you can skimp on GF
> appliances!

So.. who was being "censored" when a recent game release caused capacity
problems and slow throughput for others?

Censorship, *by definition*, is content-dependent.  Capacity issues are either
byte-count or packet-count dependent, and don't distinguish between pictures of
huge rubber duckies in Tiananmen square, and pictures of Mount Kilimanjaro.

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