internet - Controling the bars

Shanghai authorities are in the midst of a campaign that must keep minors out of internet bars. The state media have been riddled with paternalistic stories about students who were found exhausted in front of computer screens after days of unabated surfing and game playing or youngsters threatening to jump the roof after they were barred from accessing the internet. The measures include video surveillance over the 110,000 public computers in 1,325 internet bars in the city and software that forces the users to input their national ID number before they can go online.
But even the state-media, like the Shanghai Daily, sound rather skeptical about those measures when they quote the bar owners. Similar campaigns in the past did not make that much of a change. The youngsters will just use the ID cards of their parents, says one of them. 57 Bars have already been punished and a few of them had to close down, the paper says.