This one earned me a nice flame from someone who appears at first glance to an American who is studying in China and who is apparently afflicted by an intoxicating combination of ignorance and a sense of enlightenment. I remember going through that phase myself when I was a student. However, from the writing style and misspellings, he could also be a Chinese person playing propaganda defense. It's hard to tell.

Also, I've added a new syndication and post category for CNET Asia posts.

A closer eye on Beijing's Internet cafes
27 June, 2006

There may be no longer-running struggle on this earth than China's ongoing attempts to regulate and control its Internet cafes. The latest attempt by the Government to enforce good behavior upon surfers in public venues came a week or so ago, in the form of an announcement that all licensed Internet cafes in the capital will be required to install monitoring software by the end of the year.

So is it worth getting outraged and firing off angry letters to, um, well, whoever you can fire an angry letter off to in China? Probably not.

--more at CNET Asia--