Posted on 03/03/2005 4:38:06 AM PST by Crackingham
China has closed 47,000 internet cafes in a campaign aimed at creating a more "wholesome environment" for children.
The country’s leaders encourage internet use for business and education, but have expressed growing concern that it gives children access to violent or sexually explicit material, and have tried to block online criticism of their Communist rule.
The cafes closed in the crackdown had been "admitting minors and engaged in dissemination of harmful cultural information", the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily said on its website.
About 21,000 of the closed cafes might be allowed to reopen after making unspecified changes. It said the business licences of 2131 were revoked.
China has the world’s second-largest number of internet users after the United States, with 87 million people online.
The government said in October that it had detained 445 people for operating websites deemed pornographic, and fined internet cafe operators a total of 100 million yuan (£6.2 million) for letting children play violent games.
America was built on the idea of INDIVIDUAL liberties,
not on "common good."
Hillary Rodham is really evil.
Oh how the Gores, Kerrys and Rodhams of the world wish the same would happen here.
They are smart freedom isnt just for anybody...it brings out the best and worst in people..
A paranoid government doesnt want to risk one so they deny both.
"It appears China is working overtime to maintain control...methinks it's just a matter of time before this very, very large house of cards comes (peacefully) crashing down. "
Yes, and they will ultimately fail. The Soviets tried to control the flow of information, and probably had more resources to do it with than the Chinese had. They used to register typewriters, like guns. But the digital age (and the Great Communicator) defeated them without a ripple and the walls came tumbling down. The Chinese wall will also fall despite their attempts to hold back the tide.
You two trolls need to go back where you came from. First you post this Commie crap about Iraq. Then you pat each other on the back over this stuff? Good job playing 'Republicans are for censorship." Now go back to DU.
china aims to reduce FR's influence...
Word, twigs.
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