China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com)

A (truly) anonymous Slashdot reader quotes Engadget: China isn't slowing down in its bid to silence online political opposition. As of October 1st, the country will require that tech firms hold on to records of the real identities of everyone posting comments on internet message boards. This is to discourage "false rumors, filthy language and illegal messages," according to the government. Of course, it's that last part that Chinese officials are really interested in -- they know you're less likely to challenge the political order if investigators can easily track you down.

The timing of this identity requirement, the VPN restriction and other crackdowns (such as an investigation into internet giants for allowing material that "harms the social order") isn't coincidental. China's ruling party has its next national congress later in 2017, and it has a habit of ramping up censorship around these gatherings to discourage criticism of party policies.

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Fuck China.

[log0n]

Fuck China.

Re:Fuck China.

[benjfowler]

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Re:Fuck China.

[AK Marc]

The exit polls had hillary winning some of those. Historically, when the exit polls don't match the results, there was fraud.

And it's hard to think Trump won anything. Most places have almost no public support for him now.

Democrat policies that have made my life a paradise, especially the idea of a law allowing grown men in dresses to loiter in my tween daughter's restroom,

That was already legal almost everywhere. And a pre-op transexual isn't a man in a dress. The Democrat's preferred legislation would have made the man in the dress illegal, when he wasn't illegal before. But the racist/sexist lies get the votes. The truth is too nuanced for the Donnie John voter.