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Off Topic => Ole Talk => Politics & Soap Box Rants => Topic started by: AngryBastard on October 31, 2004, 02:18:09 AM

Title: China cracks down on Net
Post by: AngryBastard on October 31, 2004, 02:18:09 AM

CHINA has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100 million yuan (£6.5m) for letting children play violent games and for other violations, the government revealed yesterday.

The statement came amid a campaign launched in March to reduce or eliminate sex and violence in websites, video games and other material that Communist leaders consider harmful to public morality.

Investigators have inspected 1.8 million internet cafes looking for unlicensed operations or those that let children play violent games meant for adults, the Ministry of Culture said.

China encourages internet use for education and business, but bans sexual content on Chinese websites and tries to block foreign sites deemed pornographic or subversive.

In addition to those shut down permanently, some 18,000 internet cafes have been ordered to "stop operation for rectification", the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Zhang Xinjian, a Culture Ministry official, as saying.

The government said this month that 1,125 pornographic websites had been shut down since July and 445 people had been arrested.

report taken from http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/inter...m?id=1258172004 (http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1258172004)

Sorry if i put this in the wrong forum....i din know what to do with it...
personally i think that closing down all the internet cafes doh make any sense...                    

Title: China cracks down on Net
Post by: ShinSagat on October 31, 2004, 05:16:11 PM

no asian blues... damn

i think is a positive mood.. if yuh ever see last samurai i agreein with d emperor 'we must remember who we are' and their discipline and integrity should be upheld                      

Title: China cracks down on Net
Post by: Crixx_Creww on October 31, 2004, 07:21:39 PM

dude

dont compare chinese communism to japanese imperialism.
Not the same things.


Hmm cant say i can hate on them, i like communism and in truth what they are doing is positive... but... no porn?

wayyy harsh                    

Title: China cracks down on Net
Post by: AngryBastard on November 01, 2004, 07:59:10 PM

but then again crixx....there are minors...going in public places...watching illegal thingys...
but i think it was too extreme  to shut so much ppl out of business...                    

Title: China cracks down on Net
Post by: TriniXaeno on November 02, 2004, 08:49:49 AM

a big move

not unlike police running in arcades and clearing 'em out of school children when I was a kid.

Men used to sandwich themselves between the street fighter and teenage mutant ninja turtles box to hide.                    

Title: China cracks down on Net
Post by: MASTER_RAGE3 on November 08, 2004, 08:04:54 AM

wow i wonder if that will happen in the west?