A) Fraction of address space serviced by individual domestic states vs. nonstate providers, for nondemocratic (low values of the electoral democracy index, left) and democratic countries (right). B) Predicted fraction of address space serviced by all domestic state vs. nonstate providers based on regression results. Credit: PNAS Nexus (2024). DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae069 A German-American research team led by the University of Konstanz has mapped the ownership of network infrastructures in dem...