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The internet in China – and government monitoring of it Here’s an interesting BBC story about internet usage in China. White Rose relevant paragraphs:
Now there are more than 68m Chinese people on the net.
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These figures make China the second-largest net-using nation on the planet after the US. In the first six months of 2003, almost nine million Chinese went online for the first time.
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The China Internet Network Information Center gathered the figures and said that the slowdown in numbers could be due to the imposition of strict regulations on cyber cafes.
Over the past few months the Chinese Government has worked hard to close down illegal cyber cafes following a fire in an net cafe last year that left 25 people dead.
The government has also asked legitimate net cafes ones to step up their monitoring of what people do online.
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