iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2005 China net cafe culture crackdown Net cafes are a very popular way of going online in China Chinese authorities closed 12,575 net cafes in the closing months of 2004, the country's government said. According to the official news agency most of the net cafes were closed down because they were operating illegally. Chinese net cafes operate under a set of strict guidelines and many of those most recently closed broke rules that limit how close they can be to schools. The move is the latest in a series of steps the Chinese government has taken to crack down on what it considers to be immoral net use. Net guidelines The official Xinhua News Agency said the crackdown was carried out to create a "safer environment for young people in China". Rules introduced in 2002 demand that net cafes be at least 200 metres away from middle and elementary schools. The hours that children can use net cafes are also tightly regulated. China has long been worried that net cafes are an unhealthy influence on young people. The 12,575 cafes were shut in the three months from October to December. China also tries to dictate the types of computer games people can play to limit the amount of violence people are exposed to. China has almost 100m net users Net cafes are hugely popular in China because the relatively high cost of computer hardware means that few people have PCs in their homes. This is not the first time that the Chinese government has moved against net cafes that are not operating within its strict guidelines. All the 100,000 or so net cafes in the country are required to use software that controls what websites users can see. Logs of sites people visit are also kept. Laws on net cafe opening hours and who can use them were introduced in 2002 following a fire at one cafe that killed 25 people. During the crackdown following the blaze authorities moved to clean up net cafes and demanded that all of them get permits to operate. In August 2004 Chinese authorities shut down 700 websites and arrested 224 people in a crackdown on net porn. At the same time it introduced new controls to block overseas sex sites. The Reporters Without Borders group said in a report that Chinese government technologies for e-mail interception and net censorship are among the most highly developed in the world. source BBC.co.uk Anyone from China on FNH? What do you think about this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2005 It gets worse?China 'blocks Google news site' The Google service is available in 15 localised versions China has been accused of blocking access to Google News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders. The Paris-based pressure group said the English-language news site had been unavailable for the past 10 days. It said the aim was to force people to use a Chinese edition of the site which, according to the watchdog, does not include critical reports. Google told the BBC News website it was aware of the problems and was investigating the causes. Chinese firewall China is believed to extend greater censorship over the net than any other country in the world. China is censoring Google News to force internet users to use the Chinese version of the site which has been purged of the most critical news reports Reporters Without Borders A net police force monitors websites and e-mails, and controls on gateways connecting the country to the global internet are designed to prevent access to critical information. Popular Chinese portals such as Sina.com and Sohu.com maintain a close eye on content and delete politically sensitive comments. And all 110,000 net cafes in the country have to use software to control access to websites considered harmful or subversive. Local versions "China is censoring Google News to force internet users to use the Chinese version of the site which has been purged of the most critical news reports," said the group in a statement. "By agreeing to launch a news service that excludes publications disliked by the government, Google has let itself be used by Beijing," it said. For its part, the search giant said it was looking into the issue. "It appears that many users in China are having difficulty accessing Google News sites in China and we are working to understand and resolve the issue," said a Google spokesperson. Google News gathers information from some 4,500 news sources. Headlines are selected for display entirely by a computer algorithm, with no human editorial intervention. It offers 15 editions of the service, including one tailored for China and one for Hong Kong. Google launched a version in simplified Chinese in September. The site does not filter news results to remove politically sensitive information. But Google does not link to news sources which are inaccessible from within China as this would result in broken links. What is wrong with the chinese goverment? If they carry like this they will have to answer to the rest of the world.Somethiing have to done about this i think! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2005 i dont think the chinese can reply because the netcafe isshut downn... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2005 i dont think the chinese can reply because the netcafe isshut downn...LOL , greate joke . Damn, there must be a lot of net addicts in China for the government to actually implement all these rules and stuff. I remember, I think it was Korea, not sure, but they banned people from playing Ragnorak online... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2005 i dont think the chinese can reply because the netcafe isshut downn...LOL , greate joke . Damn, there must be a lot of net addicts in China for the government to actually implement all these rules and stuff. I remember, I think it was Korea, not sure, but they banned people from playing Ragnorak online...korea MADE that game.... man thats sad asia is not going to be the prerelease area anymore Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2005 Censorship in China is especially bad because its economy is growing so fast. :| Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2005 Damn so many things get banned there :roll: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2005 and yet they have no problem with the fireworks they produce. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 15, 2005 Nuke 'em.j/k Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 16, 2005 WOW things like this makes me glad I live in the US, although we do have our problems here too :lol:Tim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 16, 2005 i am chinese ,what is the net cafe?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 16, 2005 my english is not good , net cafe is sex site??there are 1,300,000,000 peoples in china. so everything is possible... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 16, 2005 my english is not good , net cafe is sex site??there are 1,300,000,000 peoples in china. so everything is possible...wtf ... so many poeple... WTF .... do you think its wierd that there are disseases among those poeple.... man thats sick... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 16, 2005 1,300,000,000 lol must be bigger than america and Uk pleaseure people put to geather Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 16, 2005 I think we should email the chinese government and tell them to stop suppressing it citizens rights. "after all they should have rights you know" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
