Reuters Reports China has Shut-Down 2,000 Internet Cafes and Suspended Operation

by Paul Hays **% Monday, Jul. 23, 2001 at 10:04 PM
Independent Media Center Reporter

Today on Cable News Network a story emerged from a country with nearly 25 million internet fans. The Communist Government has closed over 2,000 internet cafes and ordered nearly 6,000 to suspend operations. Many people who have written China already realize how that Communist Party operates in secret.The email is encrypted-even from Grandma!

Of Course, their are many hactivists behind the bamboo curtain and it will interesting to see how they struggle and resist these attempts to shampoo their minds of impure thoughts. If you are near a Television with cable News Network today keep a close ear. PS: Some of the banned words on their BBS and Email's are words everyone should know: Tibet, Taiwan, One Hundred Flowers Campaign, Great Leap Forward 1958-1962, Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966-1976,Democracy Wall, Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong, Falun Gong, Independent Churches, Dalai Lama, Islamic People in China's Far West and others.

Original: Reuters Reports China has Shut-Down 2,000 Internet Cafes and Suspended Operation