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jrockway on Feb 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thrown Off a United Airlines Flight for Taking Pic...

According to [1], there are 500,000,000 English speakers on the Internet. There are 300,000,000 English speakers in the US. It stands to reason that most everything you read about in English on the Internet took place in the US. It's just a really really big country.

[1] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

guruz on Feb 21, 2013 [–]

I also get my information in German from an Offline newspaper or the German websites.

Or to back my claims up, let's take some per-capita numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Incarceration_rates_worldw...

Sorry if this comes across as arrogant.

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