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I talked to the dev team, and they asked me to open a GitHub issue. They will take a look at it.

https://github.com/steemit/steemit.com/issues/515

Thanks. I'm Singapore and I follow some people from China and saw a post about this.
Good to have this surfaced. Thanks again.

Welcome :)

That's a good point. In the short term a vpn will get around that but to scale the guys are going to have to come up with something it seems. I searched for posts on this topic before I wrote it but didn't find one, oh well.