CHINA has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100 million yuan (£6.5m) for letting children play violent games and for other violations, the government revealed yesterday.
The statement came amid a campaign launched in March to reduce or eliminate sex and violence in websites, video games and other material that Communist leaders consider harmful to public morality.
Investigators have inspected 1.8 million internet cafes looking for unlicensed operations or those that let children play violent games meant for adults, the Ministry of Culture said.
China encourages internet use for education and business, but bans sexual content on Chinese websites and tries to block foreign sites deemed pornographic or subversive.
In addition to those shut down permanently, some 18,000 internet cafes have been ordered to "stop operation for rectification", the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Zhang Xinjian, a Culture Ministry official, as saying.
The government said this month that 1,125 pornographic websites had been shut down since July and 445 people had been arrested.
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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/inter...m?id=1258172004Sorry if i put this in the wrong forum....i din know what to do with it...
personally i think that closing down all the internet cafes doh make any sense...
