The mainstream liberal media so envied with the Red Chinese type of communism, let them get a load of this.  "THERE IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN COMMUNIST CHINA TOO, YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT AT LEAST ONCE."
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/07/20/china.internet.reut/index.html

CNN.com - Report: China shuts down 2,000 Net cafes - July 20, 2001

Report: China shuts down 2,000 Net cafes
July 20, 2001 Posted: 9:02 AM EDT (1302 GMT)

SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) -- China has shut down nearly 2,000 Internet
cafes across the country and has ordered 6,000 to suspend operations and
make changes, state media said on Friday.
Anonymous cybercafes are popular because they allow people to evade tough
content laws, whose infringement on a personal homepage or message board
authorities are likely to track to its source.
The Shanghai Daily said the move, China's second major clampdown on the
popular cafes in a little more than a year, aims to regulate the Internet
service market in line with rules set by the Ministries of Information
Industry, Public Security and Culture and the State Administration of
Industry and Commerce.
More than 56,800 Internet cafes or bars have been inspected during a probe
that began in April, the newspaper said.
It said police closed 53 Internet bars and ordered 59 others to suspend
operations for "rectification and improvement" in Nanjing in the eastern
province of Jiangsu.
Internet bars have mushroomed in China since first appearing in big cities
in 1997. Mini-cyber bars can now be found in bookstores, barbershops,
clothes stores -- and the butcher's.
Web site content monitored?
To the government, they open the door to a dangerous world outside the
Communist Party's control.
To the people, they offer an opportunity to speak with anonymity, making
cyberspace almost impossible to regulate despite a slew of high profile
arrests since March.
China's laws broadly ban "socially destabilizing content," breaches of
public security, "divulging state secrets" and Internet pornography.
Authorities closely monitor Web site content in search for buzzwords such
as Taiwan, Tibet and the banned spiritual group Falun Gong, Web executives
say.
State media said on Wednesday China had 26.5 million Internet users at the
end of June, up four million since the year began.

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