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China Pushes Real Name System For Online Games

Posted by timothy on from the blizzard-was-avant-garde dept.

oxide7 writes "Starting from August 1, Chinese Internet users will have to register using their real names for playing online games, China Daily reported on Saturday. The regulation, issued by the Ministry of Culture on June 22, is said to be part of a nationwide campaign to improve management of the virtual gaming industry and protect minors from unwholesome content. It applies to all multiplayer role-playing and social networking games."

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  1. Re:Excellent news by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 4, Informative

    And you know, it's been met with public outcry and made certain politicians quite unpopular. The internet filtering thing was only ever a token appeasement move to get certain conservative elements onboard - now that they've run their course, it's being quietly set aside. Realpolitik rules the day.

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  2. Re:Protect people from unwholesome content? by icebraining · · Score: 2, Informative

    About the pedos in online games, Toontown (a MMO for kids) has a nice system: you can't write anything you want, you can just use a very large set of predefined phrases. Unless you know someone IRL, then you can get a code and tell them over phone or IM, and after introducing the code, chat is free between the two.
    In theory, it fixes the problem, although it's probably less fun not to be able to talk freely.

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