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Would you consider leaving China because of Internet blocks?

Prompted by a blogpost on Chinasolved.com about 'China fractured web', I put together a short online survey and advertised it on my personal Twitter feed yesterday afternoon. It was also mentioned on Danwei's Twitter feed and on Flypig's feed.

By this morning, there were 100 responses. The results are below.

Bear in mind that everyone who responded is almost certainly a heavy Twitter user, and part of the Internet-addicted crowd of people that read Danwei and use Twitter in China despite the blocks on both sites.

The results are therefore hardly representative of anything but Danwei readers and my own circle of Net buddies, who are all juiced up on broadband.

Interestingly, The ratio of Chinese to foreign respondents is consistent with every previous survey we've done about Danwei's readers: around 70% Westerners to 30% Chinese.

1. Do China's Internet blocks make your work difficult?
Yes: 84
No: 16

2. Do China's Internet blocks make your personal life difficult or entertainment difficult to access?
Yes: 90
No: 10

3. Would you consider leaving China because of Internet blocks?
Yes: 60
No: 40

4. Are you a Mainlander, from Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan, or a foreigner?
Mainlander: 27
HK / Taiwan, Macao: 3
Foreigner: 70

Comments
These are some of the comments respondents left:

If you rely on the internet that much, then you really need a life. When in Rome...

Use a secure proxy and tunnel your traffic!

At this stage I wouldn't leave based on this but if things get worse then I may well leave.

Internet blocks suck ass, but if the only reason why you're here is because of China's reputation for world-class high-speed Internet, and now you're disappointed, you're a moron. If you're here for something else, you can work around the annoying blocks.

GFW drives me crazy!

 
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