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Mark_Wallace8-Apr-15 5:25
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pwasser wrote:
Internet access is not universal in China and much of the internet is blocked.
That's not nearly as true as certain vested interests would want you to believe.

There are more smartphones in use in China than just about anywhere else, and it's only "not universal" in tiny villages, a million miles from nowhere (quite a lot of China is barely populated; is there "universal Internet access" in the middle of spaghetti-western country, or the backwoods of Alaska?)

If you got a lot of hits just after start-up, then it was probably spiders for Baidu, etc, to make your web-site more easily available to searches. I dare say you got far more admin hits from google, yahoo, and the NSA, each of which would have hit the site multiple times from a small IP block.

Do bear in mind that you're talking about a country where a large chunk of the goods you use (including apple and other brand smartphones) are made; a billion people with TVs, smartphones, computers, etc. It's not some weird dictatorship, where everyone is spied on constantly by the government.

That description fits the US and UK better, these days.
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