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Chinese Force Mass Closure Of Net Cafes
Chien Andalusia writes "According to this article from the BBC, the Chinese authorities closed 12,575 net cafes towards the end of 2004. Due to the expense of computer hardware, net cafés have become very popular in China in recent years. The laws governing such cafés are very strict, especially in relation to minimising the amount of exposure children can get to the internet. For example, no net café is allowed to open within 200 metres of a middle or elementary school. The article also briefly discusses other restrictions imposed on Chinese net cafés."
And, even so, you have to wait years for your chance to vote to happen again. And when it does, Diebold and ES&S vote for you anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Please, please, please don't think the US is a beacon of democracy. It's the least democratic "western" state.
Indeed. It's not that China is an evil tyranny and America is a glorious bastion of freedom, it's that both are authoritarian states which choose to control and limit _different_ aspects of freedom.
China, for example, has a lot more economic freedom than America (most obviously, I believe the top income tax rate is only 15%), but less freedom of speech (though, today, that difference is rapidly decreasing).
We yell at Iran for making nukes, N. Korea for having nukes, and now China for supporting ignorance. It sounds like they take after us quite well.
And you do realize those human rights organizations have a bit to say about us as well, right?
Don't look down on China because of what happens there versus here unless you are going to understand that the government here wants us to be aware of what their government does and goes out of the way to try to keep us from knowing what ours does.
We are the last country that should claim the moral high ground.
Must we continue the sore losing and cite small, questionable studies to try and back up our "facts". Your argument is old and since Nov 2, dead.
You are a troll, but still get modded up. Way to go all you 17 yr old moderators.
If there is one thing I agree with china on is religeon is for the weak and should be destroyed at all costs. I'm glad your pastor is getting his ass whipped. maybee he shouldnt be willfully going into someone elses country to break the law. Same thing with those "missionaries" in afghanastan befor the war. They were imprisoned for breaking the law. You may think you're on a mission from god to "save" these people, but they dont want your salvation, and are more than happey to turn you in for disturbing thier way of life.