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New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet
mpicpp sends word that starting March 1st, China will ban internet accounts that impersonate people or organizations, and will require that people use real names when registering accounts online. "As part of an effort to increase control over the Internet, China's government this week revealed new regulations that require Web users to register their real names. According to The Wall Street Journal, the rules apply to users of blogs, microblogs, instant messaging services, online discussion forums, news comment sections, and other related services. Beginning March 1, China will also ban Web accounts that impersonate people or organizations, Reuters said. That includes groups posing as government entities—the People's Daily state newspaper—and impersonations of foreign leaders, like President Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin."
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Russia does this, South Korea does this, and now China.
already A. Nonymous Coward.
Cue the "if you don't use your real name - you must be a terrorist" angle from the politicians
There go about a billion Anonymous Cowards.
No problem! Every Chinese person is named Wang or Lee or Lee Wang.
Thanks a lot, Google, for "legitimizing" this kind of abhorrent behavior due to your Google+ real-name idiocy. Thanks a fucking lot.
Your mom will still have more chins than the .cn domain registry database.
Sounds like what the FCC will do in the US eventually. Just give it some time until "for the children" or to fight "the terrorists" the FCC will require real names etc.
I am making this anonymous post in order to voice my support for this policy.
It's only a matter of time before datamining allows legions of third parties to identify just about anybody online.
I don't know about you but I would prefer that if SOME entities get this information, they do not have a massive advantage in controlling my life.
The only way for this is to extend the authority to ALL.
What I don't understand is A) How they know this is being done, especially if a user is behind something like Tor, and
B) How they can possibly enforce this as it requires deleting accounts from servers all over the world.
Seems completely unfeasible, except for people like the NSA (and, presumably, the Chinese government).
Inigo Montoya. You should be familiar with the rest of this by now.
*STAB!*
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Now you will finally know the names of all of the deposed Nigerian royalty who swindled your parents out of their retirement.
Man, how many million accounts can you create using a telephone database ....
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Looks like the Chinese Govt has decided not to be evil. So they decided to follow example set by the role-model of dont-be-evil, Google+
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
If Russia does this, it sure as heck isn't enforced anywhere.
Yeah, I can see that this could be a good thing. Easier to prosecute for copyright infringement. Chase Down "Evil Doers". But HOLY JESUS, does anyone think that this wont be absolutely, sordidly, abused?!?! Plus, sorry China, it really smacks of, "Where are you're papers?" and we all remember how swimingly that turned out. So. Moving along?
It's sort of the same thing already here - now all users that sign up for free email services from Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, you all need to provide a cell phone number.
More ways to track their users and monitor their conversations.
Fuk Yu and I have a twin sister named Fuk Mei
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
working very hard to make the rest of the world look so much more attractive and superior to the chinese approach to the internet
1. people go overseas
2. people use VPNs at workplaces with foreing interests that have carve outs from the anti-proxty, anti-VPN chinese efforts aimed at regular people
3. people get access in new ways more nimble than chinese bureaucrats can whack-a-mole
no one is fooled. everyone sees a degraded experience because of the insecurity of totalitarian assholes. disgust and hatred of the chinese government by regular chinese people is increased
good job china!
such "harmony"!
more like the government is feeding a pressure cooker of resentment and frustration. morons
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
85 percent of the billion plus people populace uses one of a hundred surnames, and for common given names there's a couple dozen popular ones for male and for female........LOTS of people have the same name. "Hi I'm Tang Li!" "how about that, we've ten other ones in the class this year!"
Not uncommon to have hundreds of peole sharing the same name pair.
But I don't remember writing the previous post.
People don't have "real" names. We are not born with a unique ID burned into our souls; there is no primary key for you in the CosmosDB. Names are what people refer to each other by. My name could as easily be Big Brother as Zheng Wu, both are just as valid. To be entirely too pedantic this OP should have used the term Official Name, i.e. the name the state uses to refer to you in governmental matters.
While I realize that my FiberStore CS agent's name is not Jessica, it's preferable to Xing Huay Chiung for the sake of communication. This would be why they chose to use Jessica instead of real name. This is why I tell Starbucks employees my name is "A", when they ask.
I work at a company with ~1000 employees in Beijing. Over 80 of them have the last name "Wang"
As long as Vladimir Obama is still OK, I'm good.
If you outlaw names, then only terrorists will have names! ..wait a minute!
China is losing the internet battle, and some of the unilluminated are desperate to try and put the genie back in the box. VPNs last week.
Seems like it will all blow over, as the rear guard loses influence, or dies off over the next few years or decades.
I can hope!
You know who is jizzing to this news? Social justice warriors. The whole "anti-bully" crowd. The "trolls on the intarwebs are meanies" types. These are people new to the internet. Either because they're young or they just didn't jump in until the new century. They're people who came to our party late and then decided the party wasn't "nice enough" for their dainty dispositions and now they want to resolve it by forcing everyone to be doxxed, so that you'll *have* to be nice and you'll *have* to keep your mouth shut about countless things, because the last thing you want your religious boss to know is that you post online in support of gay rights. All in the name of keeping you from also criticizing stupid youtube videos that make the butthurt millenials feel sad.
If you can't stand behind your words, as yourself, what good are they? You're also clearly projecting you act like a troll online obviously. This type of thing would do away with your kind, lowest of the low online, completely. You don't do it in the real world projecting 'fear of your boss' so why do it online? You're a troll asshole is why! You project that you feel you can "get away with it" online though. Grow up, join humanity.
Other than for the most determined people, or for protection against the laziest and most clueless, anonymity just does not exist anymore. I wonder why anyone would bother trying to enforce it, and imagine that recent backdowns to enforce real name policies had nothing to do with backing down, but that it was easier to derive when people had the freedom to create their own identifying memes.
This is more of an expansion on the law rather than a new law. Microblog type services have required real ID registration for a long time -- you must provide a national ID in order to access, however, the display name did not (and still doesn't) have to be a real name.
The news here is more about the affect on impersonations...which I don't entirely see as a negative. People should not be allowed to impersonate others or organisations online in any country, and I believe many countries have laws against this already. In California, for example, it's illegal - with heavier repercussions if one can prove intent to harm/defraud/defame/etc...
So, for any of those who outrage against this type of thing, get over it.
How do they cope with the countless Chinese using western names in real life, too?
I am the Dread Pirate Spartacus Montoya.
I am not left handed.
Prepare to die!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Oh wait, wrong country.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I'm a pilot :)
We tu low?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
... and just who the hell is "fisted"? A fucking bullshit pseudo identity! Fuck off. More forums "illogic logic", lol, an "Appeal to Superiority" illusion rule for it (That doesn't exist).
These are people new to the internet. Either because they're young or they just didn't jump in until the new century. They're people who came to our party late.
It has been over twenty years since forces like AOL and Windows cracked the geek's hold on the Net. But there will some who will go to their graves unable to forgive or forget and move on.
When he goes to the clubs, he goes by his given name Yung Thin Ho Wai Yu No Bang Mi.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde
These regulations were sponsored by Jim Ardis. He was up all night working on this; amongst other things; and now has blood-shot eyes.
No, they won't be tried, trust me, they won't
All of them would be shot, on the spot ~ after all, they are the "TERRORISTS"
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"The denial of free speech is the first act of tyranny."
Just like the Slashdot cretins who mod people down for saying things they don't want other to hear...
to a Police State near you (under the guise of Title II classification).
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Yeeeeeeaaaahhhhh!
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How many Wu's and Chen's can they keep track of?
And will their tracking table burst?
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