No, this is not the name of a new science fiction story I’m working on.
Anyone who owns a WordPress site has noticed a sharp increase in traffic from China and Singapore since early October. These visits have a one hundred percent bounce rate. They don’t represent actual users, but scraping bots.
I would support a total Internet firewall between the USA and China. While bad traffic comes from all over the globe, a disproportionate amount of it comes from China, Russia, Turkey, and Brazil.
Since the Chinese government doesn’t allow its citizens to read what the 老外 have to say anyway, this would be no real loss for the average human Internet user in China. And it would save the rest of us a lot of headaches. Just saying!
-ET