BBC News | MEDIA REPORTS | China internet cafe debate hots up (#)

  „Up to 15% of children in China's larger cities use internet cafes China announced two weeks ago that no new internet cafes would be approved for three months while the authorities re-registered existing cafes and carried out large-scale checks on their activities. As part of the crackdown, the authorities in Anshan in the north-east province of Liaoning installed "information purifiers" in more than a third of the city's 240 internet cafes - software denying users access to pornographic web sites. Meanwhile, in Shanghai, companies specialising in information are being encouraged to enter the internet cafe market so as "to weaken the function of internet cafes as entertainment". In a debate published on the Beijing Review's website, Communist Party officials warn of the dangers of "online heroin", saying access to pornographic sites and "illegal games" in internet cafes pose a threat to the country's younger generation.“

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