China's e-crackdown

Citing its concern for the effects of violent and pornographic content on China’s impressionable youth, Beijing permanently closed down 1,600 Internet cafes and suspended the operations of another 18,000 between February and August.

Pity Beijing didn’t demonstrate similar sensitivity for its youth on Tiananmen Square in 1989. It’s also unfortunate that Beijing wasn’t more concerned about the public good during the SARS epidemic of the summer of 2003, when it covered up the extent of the crisis.

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