In China, the government is quite worried about Internet addiction and no matter what you think about that, there is a good case for such policies as limiting Internet time by the citizens, for instance, if everyone is busy online, they are not working or producing.

Many condemn China and say the reason they wish to limit Internet Cafe time is to prevent the people from getting information about the outside world or learning that folks out there want to recruit Chinese citizens to undermine the communist government.

One could suppose that this is a real fear of the Chinese Leadership, however eventually information will find a path, it always does, it's kind of like water in that regard, it always finds a way and it never stops flowing. Is the Chinese government just paranoid or is this a real concern?

Will productivity be lost to the Internet, will the Internet cause the fall of the Communist Regime in China? No, probably neither will occur. China will change over time, the Internet is not going anywhere. Some 300 million people in China use the Internet, that's equal to the US Population, so there are more people on the Internet in China than in the US.

That number will only grow so it will now be impossible for the US to ever catch China in the number of Internet users. So, even if China limits the time allowed at Internet Cafes, for whatever reason, it's not going to change the Internet, change China or slow their online growth there. Think on this.