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by PrefixKitten 3268 days ago
Do you intend not to use US websites anymore?
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Most of the US websites that I visit are owned by major multinational corporations, which do more business in the rest of the world than they do in the US (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-sales-region-chi...), (https://www.recode.net/2017/4/29/15479932/alphabet-revenue-g...), (https://about.twitter.com/company)

Are they even US companies anymore?

You, and others, are missing the point: the americentrism is in assuming that the website readers are from US, not about the impact on US trends on the rest of the world.
Well, I'm outside of the US, and needed to turn on a VPN to just be able to see the impact of the Battle for the Net action. Most of the websites had some sort of geographical restrictions on who to show the message to.
More like not use US ISP's...
All large sites use cloud or CDN services so US ISPs throttling their customers makes no difference