Complete Net Cafe Shutdown After Beijing Fire

lunchlady doris writes: "The BBC has this story that tells of a fire in an internet cafe in Beijing that killed 24 people. The mayor responded to this tragedy by shutting down all 2,400 cafes in the city, most of which are operated illegally. Only 200 cafes will be allowed to reopen, pending municipal regulation. Needless to say, the netizens of Beijing are pissed and see this as a move to quash the limited access to the net that the Chinese people currently have."

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Cool. Less SPAM for a while

[arivanov]

Cool.

After I started filtering out on Korean netblocks 95% of the SPAM I get is chinese. So this got to be good.

I would buy the mayor a few of what he drinks.

To the moderator: don't mod it down as flamebait. Ask someone who has ever tried to find an abuse@ for a netblock in that part of the world first.

This is just fodder

[vmalloc_]

The communists has been trying to get rid of cyber cafes for a while now.. they started by filtering all of the cafes, then they forced many of them to close down. They published an article about a guy dieing from playing too many video games not too long ago, which is total BS.

Isn't it incredibly obvious? CHINA IS TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE CYBER CAFES.

I wouldn't be surprised if the communist party STARTED this fire, just so they could add this to their big pile of "destroy the evil internet" paperwork, which has gotten pretty damn big over the last year. Don't even bother rebuttling my points, theres articles all over the news that confirm my suspicion, just search for "china cyber cafe" on the BBC, and watch it pour in.

If they are pissed..

[mikethegeek]

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Evil, tyrannical governments like China exist only because of the consent, or the cowardice, of the people.

Ubfortunately, more people than most of us would like to think WANT such governments. Ergo, the inevitable slide of the USA, as accelerated by the "Drug War" and now the Patriot Act, towards a socialist dictatorship.

It would not suprprise me that the fire was some sort of covert act. The ChiCom government has been wanting to shut down ALL unrestricted net access, and being able to do so in the guise of "safety" will allow them to fool enough of the people.

Simply put, China is the enemy #1 of ALL who desire free flow of ideas and information.

I knew something was up.

[vegetablespork]

My volume of spam dropped precipitously today.