| 04 March 2010 |
| Chinese bite back and fight back |
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A recent comment in China from Yan Qi a member of the Chinese governments advisory legislative body had an unfortunate affect on her restaurant website, the Taoranju hot pot restaurant chain, when it was attacked by hackers and completely paralysed.
She had suggested that all private internet cafes should be banned and closed down because they were responsible for many of the social ills in the country including truancy, video game addiction and pornography.
There are over 140,000 internet cafes in China and some 380 million internet users. It seems that many didn’t agree with her. She had commented that desperate diseases must have drastic cures, which is to ban them all.
Maybe a step too far in a country that is already censored to the hilt and where human rights are certainly not top of the agenda. China is actively trying to contain the internet in the country but the genie is already out of the bottle and I don’t think they can afford another Tiananmen square.
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