Cops shutter net cafes to save Beijing's youth Beijing police have announced yet another ‘clean-up’ of the web, this time closing hundreds of internet cafes and arresting thousands in the name of protecting the Chinese capital’s vulnerable youth. Fu Zhenghua, who heads up the city’s Public Security Bureau, said that just over 5,000 people had been arrested and the owners …
"it’s interesting to see the reason given this time is protecting “the physical and mental health of young people”."
The reason doesn't matter - it could be "to show greater understanding for the perils of too much EM radiation" for all the difference it makes. The joys of having an autocratic government.
Still, at least they don't have Zil lanes and are allowed to use the word Olympics in the net cafes that survive, eh? ;-)
Did they not have Olympic lanes four years ago then? I thought all hosting cities needed to have them these days and I am sure they must have had laws against saying "The Olympic Games" on penalty of ten years hard labour in a poundshop product supply factory.
I think London should be twinned with Beijing as they have so much in common, including air pollution!
There was no need to do so for the Beijing Olympics, even though they had them.
Primus, bulldoze houses and other buildings to create new or wider roads.
Secundus, implement a plan banning private vehicles with even-numbered licence plates on alternate days to those with odd-numbered licence plates. This reduced the traffic in Beijing by over 1.6 million cars a day (as well as carbon dioxide emissions).
Tertius, invoke civic pride in the citizens who voluntarily reduced their car journeys, and heroically crammed into buses and the Subway trains.
Result, profit. Clear roads, and blue skies.
Oddly, private vehicles with even-numbered licence plates were banned on days with odd numbers in the calendar; and vice versa for those with odd-numbered plates.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, USA, estimated that this reduction in traffic had a corresponding reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of between 24,000 and 96,000 tonnes.
London, of course, will be different; it will just engage in false flag operations, I would imagine. Oh, wait - it already has had a hoisting problem...
* Icon as I am looking for my 红领巾 red scarf.
"As usual, the definitions of what constitutes an ‘attack’ are left suitably vague so that police can in reality arrest whomever they suspect of being a trouble-maker."
Not very different, then, from our democracies where our more precisely worded laws can be twisted (or ignored, even) to achieve the same end.
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