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IPFS News Link • China

China Has Had Enough of Its Illegal Internet Cafés

• motherboard.vice.com

This prompts Wang Dapeng, city manager of the Wang Yu Wang Ka internet café chain, to whip out his smartphone and show off an app.

Wang scrolls through headshot photos of girls, including one of the lady who just tottered past. Next to each smiling face is listed the girl's age, star rating (out of five), and price per hour.

"Customers can use this app to choose a girl to play video games with," Wang tells me, as we chat in the staff area of the internet café's branch in Sanlitun, Beijing's busy shopping area.

"The prices are chosen by the girls," he continues. "If they think they are beautiful and skilled at games they will put down higher prices. Customers rate them based on their gaming and communication skills. If guys are rich and find it boring to play games alone they find a girl, or even two or three. He can make a whole team."


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