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Chinese Bloggers Encouraged to Register Contact Info

Posted by samzenpus on from the and-where-can-we-arrest-you dept.

Raver32 writes "Blog service providers in China are "encouraged" to register users with their real names and contact information, according to a new government document that tones down an earlier proposal banning anonymous online blogging. At least 10 major Chinese blog service providers have agreed to sign the "self-discipline pledge" issued by the Internet Society of China, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported."

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  1. Made By The Cheapest Communist Labor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Oblig: In the Soviet ... by Tackhead · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    > and how many bloggers are imprisoned because they don't like the government in the US?

    "Look, just because we turned off all the compiler warnings, didn't check the lengths of input strings, didn't do bounds-checking on my arrays, ran multiple network-facing services with full Administrator privileges, how many XP systems have been remotely compromised? UPnP, DCOM, RPC, Messenger, IE, Outlook, and Word are totally secure!"
    - Some marketroid at a Windows XP release party in late 2001.

  3. mod $0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as it is licens3d I'm sick of it.

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