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Re:Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a plann... by rchakra3 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:38AM (#19141317)
They probably mean that a large percentage of internet services are hosted on US-based servers. As a regular AWS/Azure customer, the regions in which I tend to see provisioning issues makes this seem right, though I'd love to see some numbers.
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Re:Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a plann... by Retric on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @01:04AM (#19141427)
For various reasons the internet maps much closer to GDP than Population. But, largely it’s a case of smaller economies driving less advertising dollars which supports fewer websites. So it’s also weighted more to consumer spending than raw GDP.
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