SlashDot reports China is closing some 1,600 “Internet Bars”, fining them up to $12.1 million. The Chinese government says the Internet Bars were letting young children to play violent and adult-only PC games. Reports say the goverment inspected some 1.8 million bars and ordered about 18,000 of those bars to “to stop operation for rectification.”
Perhaps there’s another reason — government control.
The Chinese government also banned DailyWireless for heaven’s sake. “Editor-in-Chief” Sam Churchill received an email from a viewer a few months ago saying that DailyWireless is not available in mainland China. He had to use a proxy server to view this blog.
Sheese. I guess we’d better watch our step!
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