From Yahoo, via Drudge Report, China says has more people surfing the Web than US. (AP Business Writer)
“China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.”
Aww, did the “China Internet Network Information Center” (CINNC) forget that, on average, the US browser has almost 13 times the purchasing-power-parity-adjusted gross domestic income per capita? Shame on serious new outlets for posting obvious public relations pieces. It’s not as if the credibility of Chinese government statistics has been called in to question before.
Does anyone have at least the 3 years of recent memory it would require to recall this story: China imposes online gaming curbs?
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Tags: China, Drudge Report, Internet, news
