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Please stop spreading this false narrative: https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/06/07/cloudflare-making-inter...

Most network attacks and Spams actually comes from the United States.

The Spamhaus page mentioned in the article you linked: https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries/ now shows China as the top malicious country. TFA was written in 2016. In the last 3 years China has overtaken the USA.

So it's not a false narrative. Most attacks and spams do come from China, not the US.

I think they were suggesting the websites they run, 90%+ of the attacks come from Hong Kong, i.e. not that 90% of all website attacks come from HK. No way of knowing unless they publish the logs/stats

I think most likely they are amalgamating Hong Kong and China like some people do on the thread here. And yes, indeed some Data Centers in China are a big source of spam and automated attack, but it just doesn't make sense to block an entire country when you can just block hosting providers.

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