Shanghai will monitor Internet (AP)

” Authorities are installing video cameras and high-tech software in Shanghai’s Internet cafes and bars to make sure customers don’t look at forbidden Web sites, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday.

The new controls – part of a crackdown also aimed at keeping children out of such places – will begin in all of Shanghai’s 1,325 Internet hangouts by the end of June, the Shanghai Daily newspaper quoted an official with the Shanghai Culture, Radio, Film and TV Administration as saying. ”

Here is the full AP report on Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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