I agree that casinos are some of the most knee-jerk of businesses, and they often cut off their nose to spite their face. Like the whole Denmark debacle – I’m sure at the time it was prudent, but several years later I very much doubt Denmark is still a hotbed of bonus abusing. But they’re still banned because the casinos have a tendency to overreact.
Anyway I’m not sure we’re debating the same things – I’m just saying that a lot of spam and fraud occurs in/from China (and the other areas I mentioned), a disproportionately large amount compared to the number of people online there.
I agree that that doesn’t mean that all affiliates from those areas are crooks, far from it, and that affiliate programs are being blinkered if they think they should just ban the whole area rather than try to sort the good from the bad.