{"id":32709,"date":"2022-01-22T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32709"},"modified":"2022-01-22T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:14:37","slug":"who-follows-me-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32709","title":{"rendered":"Who follows me abroad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only have a dim technical idea what these stats mean. I have been looking at them since 2006 when &#8220;hits&#8221; was the measure of a webpage&#8217;s success. The idea was that each hit represented a pair of eyes looking at your page&#8217;s content. If it was ever true its not true now. The vast majority of hits come from &#8220;bots&#8221; tiny programs that go to every website and measure which words are used and report it back to servers that belong to Goodness-knows-who.  That said, I&#8217;ve always noted which nations seem to be snooping around my site. Ten years ago it was often eastern European nations which had a lot of one-man-shop internet pirates snooping around. But National security systems do this too and none of them with more dedication than the People&#8217;s Republic of China which is doing its best to protect the new Chinese emperor Xi. Why just having the name &#8220;Xi&#8221; in a blog is a magnet for attention and possibly a later hacking. In this blog&#8217;s case I put out one largely neglected post a few weeks ago that I wish had gotten more attention. I&#8217;ll bet Chinese bots reported back to their computer bosses about <strong>lincolndemocrat.com.<\/strong> Certainly more of my pages were viewed by Chinese &#8220;eyes&#8221; than those of any other nation not counting the United States.<\/p>\n<p>This is the post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32557\">https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32557<\/a> titled: <strong>The Uighur Games<\/strong>.  If everyone was passing it around the Chinese would be furious with me. Thank God I don&#8217;t live in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Audience&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Pages&#8230;&#8230;Hits&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Bandwidth<\/p>\n<p>United States&#8230;us&#8230;&#8230;25,768&#8230;..28,439&#8230;..589.93 MB\t<\/p>\n<p>China&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..cn&#8230;&#8230;17,093&#8230;..17,237&#8230;..28.21 MB<\/p>\n<p>BTW I have blogged about China in 158 posts since 2006:  <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?paged=8&#038;s=China\">https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?paged=8&#038;s=China<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2017 Claudia and I visited China. Before we visited China in 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22431\">I mentioned on the blog<\/a> that I knew China censured Google and others. On our first or second day their we were in a fancy Beijing hotel with supposedly uncensured news from CNN and the BBC. But a mention of Chinese censorship of Google by those western news outlets was suddenly blanked out. <\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks I&#8217;ve heard talking heads wondering whether dictatorship or democracy is better prepared to handle Earth&#8217;s looming crisis. I hate that question but it is more than fascinating. I want to put my bets on openness but Trumplicans in the US are making that a very troubling question for me right now. Neither China or Russia are good candidates for protecting the Earth at the moment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only have a dim technical idea what these stats mean. 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