China Cracks Down on Internet Cafes
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The Chinese government has shut down 1,600 Internet cafes during 2004 and hit thousands more with fines and temporary closures. The country&#39;s Culture Ministry claims that the shuttered establishments
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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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The move is part of a government crackdown on graft by ChinaÂs president that has focused on prominent political opponents.
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CHINA has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100 million yuan (Â£6.5m) for letting children play violent games and for other violations, the government revealed yesterday.
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China is tightening control over its online music and game industries, ordering distributors to submit all imported products for approval by official censors, the government said Tuesday.
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China shut down 44,000 Web sites and  homepages and arrested 868 people last year in a campaign  against Internet porn which will continue until the end of this  year's Beijing Olympics, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
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A high-profile government crackdown on Internet cafes in China resulted in the temporary closure of 18,000 Internet cafes between February and August, but few cafes were closed permanently, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
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BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- China is carrying out a nationwide campaign to crack down on &quot;phone sex&quot; services, paralleling another sweeping operation against Internet pornography, Minister of Information Industry Wang Xudong said here Tuesday.
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China will allow only state-run Web sites to broadcast video or radio through the Internet, tightening the governmentâs regulatory grip over the media content offered there.
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CHINA IS continuing its pogrom on the country&#39;s Internet cafes and officially confirmed that it has shut more than 1,600 Internet cafes since February.
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China is cracking down on "vulgar"  entertainment and asked all video and audio producers to check  their inventory for risque material with threats of fines and  other punishment for those who do not weed it out.
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China on Sunday announced detailed controls on the distribution of news by foreign news agencies, banning all content that violates its own tight media restrictions.
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A Chinese city planned to censor online  chatroom exchanges and ban anonymous postings after residents  used the Internet to organize a mass protest against a chemical  plant, Chinese media reported on Friday.
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Chinese authorities shut down more than 12,575 Internet cafes from October to December last year for operating illegally, the government said.
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China has shut down more than 100 websites for copyright violations since a new regulation came into effect in July, state media have said.
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China's new rules on online video and  audio content banning violent, pornographic and fake material  are aimed at promoting the Internet's "healthy" development,  according to a government statement.
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InfoWorld - The Chinese government will not approve licenses for new Internet cafes this year as part of a move intended to strengthen government control over the popular Internet access points.