There is a phenomenon going on right now where tiny sites are getting knocked offline due to sudden traffic, basically DDOSing them. It has been found that the automation of these bot farms sends out scrapers to find new places where you can post on the site. Like anything, anything hat allows you to post anything on the site. So it will find some tiny store's webfront, see it has a place for customer reviews, and then tell the bot farm it has found new land. The place then gets swarmed with bot traffic.

So literally everywhere you can post anything is getting bot traffic right now.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Oh silencing Naomi Wu because, while her social media wasn't about anything that China would ban, engineering and making, she is gay, and her lesbian partner is Uighur. Complaining about the rapidly rising costs of housing, and the comparative stagnancy in pay, will get your social media shut down. Oh if you put a small image making fun of Xi, buried in the background of a densely textured scene, well we will threaten trade with your government to force them to stop the distribution of your game.

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