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Published online 9 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070305-13

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Chinese ban on Internet cafés ducks the issue

If addiction's the problem, says Phil Ball, prohibition's not the answer.

Philip Ball

This week the Chinese government announced that it will freeze the opening of any new Internet cafés for a year from July 2007. This restriction on computer access has inevitably been interpreted as a further attempt by the Chinese authorities to control and censor politically sensitive information.

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