Beijing police has severely dealt with two local "Internet bars" for serving pornagraphic content to the users.
The two internet outlets are located in Beijing's western Haidian District, where college students and high-tech employees make up the majority of the population. Young people in Beijing tend to surf the Internet at street bars, for computers remain a luxury and beyond the means of ordinary students.
The Feiyu Bar, located to the south of the Peking Univerity, was fined 10,000 yuan (US$1,200) and ordered to straighten out its "irregularities" within a given time on Tuesday.
A random inspection by the local Haidian Public Security Bureau found out 56 screens of a total 860 computers hooked to Internet were displaying pages which are "obscene and filthy". Beijing authorities say Internet bars serving porn content breach a newly-publised regulation on Internet security protection.
Relevant departments of the neighbouring Peking University assisted the investigation.
Feiyu bar was launched by Wang Yuesheng, a farmer-turned entrepreneur from North China's Shanxi Province. The manager has accepted the punishment and said he would "take a lesson" from it, a police spokesman said.
The other bar, called "Spark-ice Internet Cafe" 3 miles south of Feiyu, was ordered to stop business, because it had been receiving users without a licence, the spokesman said.
(chinadaily.com.cn 12/07/2000)
