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Re:Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open acces... by snovv_crash on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:58AM (#17098815)
Was that an accident, or was it on purpose because centralized systems are easier to monitor/censor?
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Re:Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open acces... by netheril96 on Friday May 18, 2018 @03:19AM (#17099323)
China does not have many public IPs (v4) in the first place, so I doubt it is in any way deliberate. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_addr...:

Country | Number of IPv4 addresses Per Person

US | 4.91196

China | 0.24591

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Re:Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open acces... by snovv_crash on Friday May 18, 2018 @03:42AM (#17099409)
And IP addresses per internet-connected person?
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Re:Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open acces... by JFFalcon on Friday May 18, 2018 @04:36AM (#17099677)
Searching for 'China internet percentage' shows several sites claiming ~50%, so double the ratio to ~0.5, or 10 times less than the USA.
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Re:Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open acces... by netheril96 on Friday May 18, 2018 @07:48AM (#17100637)
I don't know the numbers, but even if it exceeded one, it wouldn't mean every Chinese would get one public IP. Many IP addresses are still on sale.
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