On April 27, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism reported to the Municipal Office of the Prevention of fingerprints "on the orderly promotion of Internet Internet service business establishments and other cultural and tourism venues to resume work and resume business," suggesting that by the counties (municipalities), districts, development zones of the cultural and tourism administrative departments of the comprehensive study and judgment of the local situation of the epidemic prevention and control, in the premise of the implementation of preventive and control measures in place, after the local people's government agreed to promote the Internet in a prudent, safe, and orderly manner. Internet service business establishments, entertainment venues and other cultural and tourism venues to resume work and resume business, closed entertainment venues not to open for the time being, has been approved and agreed. Prohibit Internet cafes continue to operate after zero o'clock, commonly known as "zero point cut off", from the "Internet access service business premises regulations" (hereinafter referred to as "regulations"), article 22 of the provisions of the "Internet access service business premises daily business hours are limited to 8:00 to 24:00 hours. " Internet cafes operating outside the specified business hours, by the cultural administrative department to give a warning, and may impose a fine of less than 15,000 yuan; the circumstances are serious, ordered to suspend business rectification, until the revocation of the operating license.
Compared with the previous regulations, the "zero-point disconnection" is obviously much tougher. According to legal experts, the implementation of "zero-point disconnection" is related to the arson case of the "Blue Speed" Internet cafe that shocked the whole country, which was set on fire in the early morning of June 16, 2002, in the courtyard of No. 20 College Road in Beijing's Haidian District. In the early morning of June 16, 2002, a fire broke out in the illegally operated "Blue Speed" Internet cafe in the courtyard of No. 20 College Road in Haidian District, Beijing, killing 25 people and injuring many others. Most of the dead and injured were students from nearby colleges and universities. This vicious incident prompted the government to resolve to increase the supervision of Internet cafes, soon, the "Regulations" introduced, which, Internet cafes business hours "at their own discretion" was "zero point disconnect" instead.
"Regulations" since November 15, 2002, since the implementation of the community on the "zero point of disconnection" of the continuous questioning. Summarized, the main reasons for three points: First, the business license, permit and other relevant certificates of the Internet cafe, its independent decision-making business time is part of the autonomy of enterprises, protected by the Constitution, the State Council does not have the right to develop in the "Regulations" and the Constitution contradicts the provisions of the second is the same as the "service establishments", stores, dance halls, concert halls, discos, bars, nightclubs, and the "service establishments". Secondly, the same as "service establishments", shops, dance halls, concert halls, discos, bars, nightclubs and so on, there is no restriction on business hours, but only on the Internet cafe restrictions on business hours, is discrimination against the Internet cafe, unfair. In addition, the Internet is today's most advanced information dissemination tools, every day to force Internet cafes to stop business for 8 hours, is unreasonable; Third, for law enforcement agencies, Internet cafes, other problems can not be investigated, "overtime business" is always a check, it is very easy to fine. This provision for the use of authority to engage in "income generation" provides a channel.
The good book agrees with these views. Let's put aside whether the provisions of the "zero-point disconnect" is suspected of choking on food, only from the effect of its implementation, so that people can not be optimistic. In Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other southern cities accustomed to the nightlife, the provisions from the outset has been resisted, and even can be said to have never been seriously implemented. In many parts of the country, a similar situation also exists. It has long been an open secret that "overtime operation" has been banned.
After the arson case of the "Blue Speed" Internet cafe, the public opinion has been in a crusade against Internet cafes. In fact, the "blue speed" Internet cafe business hours is not wrong, wrong in its violation of the opening of minors, wrong in the arson, wrong in the absence of any fire safety measures? Irrational atmosphere spawned out of the "zero-point net" provisions, is too hasty, too hasty some?
Nowadays, the Internet has been inseparable from people's daily lives. Among the more than 100 million Internet users in China, there are a few who surf the Internet in Internet cafes. Government departments to take into account the public demand, re-examine the "zero-point cut-off" all kinds of shortcomings, and then in Beijing pilot to relax the opening hours of Internet cafes, means that the decision-making science and rationality began to return to the position of respect for public opinion, worthy of praise. "Internet cafes open all night", rather than shyly hiding in a corner wandering, not as generous to come to the foreground, after all, "Zero cut off the net", is not a cure for the management of Internet cafes.