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China Closes over Three Thousand Internet Cafes
Posted by Paul Szynol on Thursday, December 26 @ 21:37:40 EST Free Expression
Since June, and ostensibly motivated by fire safety precautions (Beijing cafe fire kills 24), the Chinese gov't has closed 3,300 Internet cafes.

The state has also temporarily closed 12,000 Internet cafes which will not be allowed to reopen until they make fire-safety (and other??) modifications.

Coverage is here.

 
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Re: China Closes over Three Thousand Internet Cafes (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, December 26 @ 22:51:50 EST
China's use of "fire-safety" to quash internet access makes me think of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, for all the wrong reasons. -- EB


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Re: China Closes over Three Thousand Internet Cafes (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, December 27 @ 04:26:28 EST
http://iso.hrichina.org/iso/article.adp?article_id=2891&subcategory_id=264

Mao’s eyes follow me across the vast expanse of Tiananmen Square. Snow covers the new paving slabs, the silence in the square is eerie. The level of police presence is extraordinary. Several days earlier five people, allegedly Falungong practioners, had set themselves on fire. Later, relaxing in the Friendship Hotel I watch as Chinese state television replays the grisly images of burning protestors. The looping surveillance footage shown on state television recalled an earlier moment when it had played a key role. . .


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