China Closes 1,600 &quot;Internet Bars&quot;
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Kujila writes &quot;According to a Chinese Reuters article, China has closed close to 1,600 &quot;Internet Bars&quot; (probably the equivalent of &#39;Internet Cafes&#39; stateside) and inflicted up to $12.
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p2pnet.net News:- China says since launching its war against Net cafes at the begining of the year, it&#39;s closed down 1,600 and, &quot;imposed 100 million yuan, or US$12 million, worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other
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The number of Internet users in China soared past 200 million in 2007, a new report from the country's quasi-government Internet overseer said Thursday.
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According to reports from a government Internet watchdog, China has shut down about 1,287 websites that cater to harmful content - pornography, religious cults, gambling and superstition.
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China Mobile suspends the Chinese Web portal for a year.
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Between February and August of this year, China has shut down 1,600 internet cafes, and handed out 100 million yuan fines (US$12 million) to cafe operators, for allowing children access to violent or adult-only content and games.
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Any day now China will have more web users than the US, but the net has been tamed by Beijing's iron grip
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BEIJING - China will license no new Internet cafes this year while regulators carry out an industry-wide inspection, the government says, amid official concern that online material is harming young people.
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Working with a local Internet service provider, authorities in Singapore this week shut down a network of around 10,000 robot, or "zombie," computers after technicians stumbled on the illicit network by tracing communications from compromised PCs.
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China says it  will not allow any more cybercafes to open this year, to cut down on "internet addiction".
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's army of Internet users and operators are beginning to question the practicality and purpose of new controls on network - mostly on-line - music.
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Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai said attempts to access Google&#160;and other search engines were successful Friday, despite claims on a U.S. blog that traffic to these&#160;sites was redirected&#160;to Chinese search engine Baidu.com.The claim first surfaced on TechCrunch, a U.S. blog that largely covers Internet startups before being picked up by other sites. The headline of that post alleged &quot;Baidu hijacking Google traffic In China,&quot; but offered no evidence to prove the claim apart from an undated, modified screenshot showing Baidu&#39;s Web page below the URL for Google Blogsearch.In a follow-up post, TechCrunch said &quot;new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.&quot; That report cited posts on other blogs, where users claimed to have been redirected from U.S. search sites to Baidu.A Google spokeswoman in Beijing did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.However, several Internet users -- four in Beijing and two in Shanghai -- reported on Friday morning that search engines operated by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, including Google Blogsearch, one of the sites reportedly most affected, were accessible. Attempts to reach these sites had not been redirected to Baidu, they said.Internet censorship is a serious problem in China, and regulators routinely&#160;block access to sites&#160;with content they don&#39;t like. But Chinese officials very rarely comment on censorship efforts, making it difficult for users to determine when a site has been blocked or is inaccessible for other reasons.Timing can be an important factor, with Chinese censors blocking access to some Web sites around politically sensitive dates, such as the June 4 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and the Chinese Communist Party Congress, a political confab held once every five years to choose top leaders and set policy that is now underway in Beijing.Access to a search engine can also be blocked if a user searches for a politically sensitive word, such as a search for information on the banned Falungong religious sect.Tracking the ebb and flow of censorship efforts can be a challenge, as access to sites can be blocked and opened, seemingly by whim. On Wednesday, Wikipedia remained blocked in China and access to YouTube was shut off. But censors eased off on other sites, opening up access to Google&#39;s Blogspot blogging service and permitting users to view pictures on Flickr, which had been blocked even though the site was accessible in China.Even when Web sites are accessible in China, there can be moments when sites cannot be reached. For example, one of the Chinese Internet users in Beijing contacted for this story said he was unable to reach Google.com three days ago. Attempts to reach the site were not redirected to Baidu, and Google has been accessible during the last couple of days, he said.While the Chinese government may not be redirecting search-engine traffic to Baidu, censors did this in 2002, just before the previous Party Congress opened in Beijing. At that time, censors cut off access to Google and redirected traffic to several local search engines, including Baidu. However, the rerouting did not affect all users and did not appear to be done at a national level, analysts said at that time.&#160;
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(OfficialWire) -- 10/31/04 -- Authorities in China have ordered more than 1,600 Internet cafes closed since February 2004, imposing more than 100 million yuan, or
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China has closed 1,600 Internet cafes and fined operators a total of $12 million for letting children play violent games and for other violations, the government said Saturday.
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EBay Inc. will close its primary China website and form a partnership with Beijing-based Tom Online Inc. to boost traffic in the world's second-biggest Internet market, a person familiar with the situation said yesterday.
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China is cracking down on music sites. Really.
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plui writes &quot;An all IPv6 backbone was launched this weekend in China. &#39;CERNET2 is the biggest next-generation Internet network in operation in the world and connects 25 universities in 20 cities.