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Most countries ARE capable of that. Or rather, most people of a country don't like platforms not dominated by their own primary language, and this is passively achieved by that tendency.

Lots of Russian stuffs on the Internet come through Telegram, meanwhile China has Weibo and TikTok, Korea does its thing in KakaoTalk and Facebook/Insta, Japan uses LINE along Twitter/Insta instead, so on and so forth. Everyone could be on Facebook, but that isn't what is going on.

The Interweb isn't so global, and English isn't the lingua franca of all communications. It's just the perception one experiences through an American door, though the Web do tend to be more developed in en-US.



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