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...Order No. 292 barred nine types of content from websites, online bulletin boards and chat rooms, including anything that might "harm the dignity and interests of the state" or "disturb social order." The government has also made it difficult to maintain anonymity. The majority of Chinese go online at cybercaf?s, and in order to rent computer time users must register with their national ID numbers. Cybercaf? employees watch what their customers are viewing, keep logs of sites visited and share that information with local Internet police departments, which have been set up in more than 700 cities and provinces...
...identity of the terrorists. Two days after the attack, a previously unknown group, Hikmatul Zihad, e-mailed a local paper to claim responsibility?and promised to kill Hasina within seven days. Last Friday, Bangladeshi authorities began questioning a man they suspected of sending the e-mail from a cybercaf?, but political analysts are unsure whether he is suspected of being a member of a terrorist group or is just a prankster. As for Hasina, she questions the government's capacity to conduct a proper inquiry and is asking for an international probe into the bomb blasts. While they grope...
...Chen's world. Last week, authorities kicked off a nationwide crackdown against China's estimated 150,000 unlicensed Internet caf?s, comparing them to opium dens where young men slowly destroyed themselves a century ago. In mid-June, 25 people were killed when a pair of teens torched a Beijing cybercaf? that had refused them entry. It was the capital's deadliest fire in decades. The central government used the blaze as an excuse to order the closure of thousands of illegal Internet outlets over the next two months, threatening the owners with prosecution...
...government has for several years staged periodic cybercaf? raids, usually on the grounds that online pornography and violent, addictive computer games are a moral hazard to the nation's youth. But psychological and safety considerations are only a small part of the campaign to shut down what is, for many Chinese, the main artery to the Internet. Control-crazy officials are struggling to monitor an information-packed online world that by its very name, the Web, is a tangle of unmanageable links to "cultural pollution." Since 2000, the number of Internet users in China has quadrupled to 38.5 million...
...only a tiny minority of China's cybercaf?s is playing by the rules. Since the hourly charge is less than 50 cents at the priciest Shanghai outlets, city dwellers vow to keep surfing. "Coming to an Internet bar is cheaper than karaoke or a pub or a disco," says Zhang Guoming, a 34-year-old cybercaf? owner in Shanghai. "There's less harm in it than going elsewhere. Why are they trying to close us down...
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