i don’t want to go to all that effort

indeed, original source is the wrong term, but at least it’s an english derivation of it, which was only copied by the link in this post

it is indeed somewhat attributed, but it still very much looks like scraped content.

a very strong indicator is the inclusion of

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at the end, which on cointelegraph’s page is separate from the content and provides a sign-up form.

why is this a blog spam article badly copied from the original source at https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/china-dev-fined-salary-vpn-10m-ecny-airdrop-asia-express/ ?

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