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To: CigarHolder who wrote (19620)	6/7/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: allen v.w.	Read Replies (1) of 40688

Give me internet or give me death say the Chinese people. I want my freedom say the Chinese people. I want democracy say the Chinese people! IMO ----------------------------------------------- Shanghai tightens hold on Internet cafes Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Reuters News Service SHANGHAI (June 4, 1999 12:11 p.m. EDT nandotimes.com) - Chinese boomtown Shanghai has disciplined 278 unregistered Internet cafes in a crackdown on uncontrolled forays into cyberspace, the official Liberation Daily reported on Friday. The move was aimed at "standardizing the city's public Internet cafes" where customers can sip coffee and surf "the Net," the newspaper said. A city government official said some of the unregistered cafes would be fined while others would be given a warning. The crackdown, described as "Public Action Number One," was launched jointly by the city's police and commercial, telecommunications and education authorities. Shanghai now has more than 2,000 Internet cafes but only 1,500 of them have applied to register and only 350 are authorized, the newspaper said. Local authorities have tightened control of information vendors around the 10th anniversary of the Beijing crackdown on dissent on June 3-4, 1989, when the army shot its way into Tiananmen Square to end seven weeks of pro-democracy protests. Late last month, Shanghai ordered local paging stations and computer information vendors to stop disseminating political news temporarily, including news downloaded from the Internet. China has seen explosive growth in the use of the Internet in recent years but the government has also viewed it as a potential threat to its authority. There are now an estimated two million Internet users in China and some experts predict the number of Web surfers could top 10 million by next year.

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