Chinese surfers outnumber Americans
THERE ARE NOW MORE than 253 million Internet surfers in China, which is much more than the US.
The figures were released by the China Internet Network Information Centre which noted that there had been a 56 per cent increase in Internet surfers behind the bamboo curtain in the last year.
The United States had an estimated 223.1 million Internet users in June, according to Nielsen Online, a research firm.
However while the the Pew Internet and American Life Project puts US online penetration at 71 per cent, only 19.1 per cent of Chinese use the web regularly which means there could be much more rapid growth.
A CNNIC press release said that it is the first time the number has drastically surpassed the United States, becoming the world's Number One.
It has been estimated that China's online population should keep growing by 18 percent annually, reaching 490 million by 2012. ยต
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AP
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They might have more surfers but they also have parental/government controls on thiers ; )
China's population is way bigger then the USA's population.
"The United States had an estimated 223.1 million Internet users in June"
That can't be right, that would mean almost every person including the elderly and babies used internet (US has 301 million people), that's not conforming to earlier older reports that the US actually wasn't so high on the list (25th) in regards of ubiquity of internet with 50% of households, not persons, households.
But perhaps the idea is that nielsen counted households then multiplied with average number of people in a household or some such silliness skewing the figures, but even then I have my doubts about the figures.
The same source reports that 80% of the 253 million Chinese Internet users have a broadband connection. Eighty Percent! Anyone who thinks that the Internet's only purpose is to pirate cheap movies is an idiot.

At the same time the MAFIAA and US ISPs are doing everything to throttle the Internet in the US and to block traffic which might threaten their monopoly in the future, such as traffic FROM the Internet TO the customers' home (e.g. the customers' own web server or other services). The very same MAFIAA is also handling affairs in the EU. Thank you!

BTW, there are 600 million Chinese using mobile phones.
Charlie dont surf.
I always knew those Chinese were perverts!