China steals internet crown from US – theage.com.au

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.

China steals internet crown from US – web – Technology – theage.com.au.

This is made more impressive by the fact that the internet addressing system currently doesn’t even really cater for chinese characters, and that the Chinese are only able to see parts of the internet that don’t cast their illustrious government in a negative light.