Impact

The obvious impact that this suspension had on CFI is immediately apparent: pecuniary. CFI, each day, had about a million page views, from 100,000 daily users. As a result of the suspension, an estimated $120,000 in advertiser spending had been lost in just the first 4 days.

An Internet user only known as ``mcc''[7] posted the following on a web-site forum for news:

Quick but painful slap on the wrist, and the whole thing is more or less over 15 days later ... the damage to the psychological state of the employees lasts.

Another Internet user known as ``krog''[6] posted the following regarding the emerging new force (the Internet):

The Internet is by far the most effective irritant ever to the differences in countries' laws; in this case, it's China's (over)reaction to information physically located within its bounds but visible to and destined for the entire world.