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Chinese government ban sites for the information on it what might threat the stability of the country, it has nothing to do with a company big enough or not. Tons of innocent sites are banned because they are hosted on the same IP address that also hosted some anti-China sites. This event means nothing to Dropbox, it only means someone was using Dropbox to pass through information that is not considered legal in China.

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Think it in this way: in this age, good IT companies make profit/benefit from promoting free-flow of information (e.g. Google, Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia). The Chinese gov is trying to ban the unconstrained flow of information (the whole idea of free-flow of information is considered harmful to the current regime). Thus, the website is banned by Chinese gov must be particularly good at promoting the flow of information, which makes them good candidates of successful IT companies.

I'm curious though, since Dropbox isn't really a way of communicating. I guess someone could have published the url to something in their "public" folder.

Dropbox uses https for all of its communication, which makes it a non monitored form of communication. A lot of people use dropbox for sharing files and folders for organizing events. You could also share videos and documents about banned information.

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