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Forget MTV, I Want My Internet!
shystershep writes "Teenagers in China are apparently pretty serious about getting internet access. This article on the English version of the online newspaper Xinhuanet details gang-type activity to get around China's ban on persons under 18 entering internet cafes. I may get a little cranky if I don't get my daily net fix, but I've never beat anyone with a fire extinguisher because of it (not that I remember, anyway)."
Arbitrary age restrictions like these, especially over something as innocuous as information, are plainly bullshit.
;)
How would you old farts like it if we put an age cap on viagra?
Don't think we couldn't do it
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
They have high ambitions if they want to prevent any teenager from using the internet. Communism vs. Free speech?
More like Communism vs. Kids with fire extinguishers.
The path I walk alone is endlessly long.
30 minutes by bike, 15 by bus.
From the Headline: Net cafe staff quit over retaliation from barring miners
Those miners probably would've dirtied the keyboards anyways...
aLL tHe GreAt peOpLE aRe DEaD. i'M nOt feeLiNg tOO GoOD eiThEr..
It's like the Beastie Boys said, "you've gotta fight! for your right! to party!"
Sometimes that requires the use of fire extinguishers.
A blog about stuff.
This restriction is not to limit free speech and free information. No, they restricted the internet to keep all the immature kids off the internet to make China look much better. How many times haven't you wanted to punch someone through the screen? I haven't ever, but I've heard stories.
And of course this won't stop everything, just being 18 won't stop anyone from trollwarring on the internet or in whatever games the chinese play.
Midori Linux - the world class general purpose embedded OS core (developed by Mr. Linux, the father of Linux)
Oh well. At least they attempted somehow to credit the developer...
In Soviet Russia, our new overlords are belong to all your base.
I'm an American in China ATM (college student, school trip) and they offer i-net access in the hotel. I'm posting here (and am surprised) and can check my mail on AOL but I can't get to my university's website (www.muohio.edu) or contact that mail server at all. (or get on my VPN at the universtiy) Why would that be blocked? Bah. So my point is that they're fighting this hard and they're still not going to get the Internet proper - they're stuck behing the great firewall of China.
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
$10 on the kids with fire extinguishers.
Do people honestly think revolution anywhere is going to come without violence? I mean yeah an internet cafe' is not exactly the type of place to inspire rage, at least not in me, but anything can become symbolic to the oppressed.
an internet version of tiannamen square
I think it's called a slashdotting...
Blaming GW Bush for the Iraq war is like blaming Ronald McDonald for the poor quality of food.
... and poured mineral water into displays.
That's a definite proof that this is a bourgeois conspiracy. Working class people would have used tap water!
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
[...] the info that they want...
You mean porn, right?
Martin
1. Use reverse psychology on moderators 2. Gain karma 3. ??? 4. Profit!
Oh, it's quite relevant. For the same reason that when Internet access is outlawed, only outlaws will have Internet access.