Yes, you are right. The BBSs are only open to on-campus users now.
For the real ID thing, I meant that I had to give my real name when registering for an username. Of course the username can be arbitrary, and the real name is not visible except to the admin'tors. That was my experience for most BBSs I used.
Anyway, Chinese students everywhere are very sad about this incident.
I am a Nanjing University alumni, the version of the story I heard from my schoolmates is that the admin team of Lily BBS (BBS of Nanjing University) planned a mass quit but was persuaded not to by the president of the university. A dozen of other university BBSs were affected as well. On the first day following this incident, many of the affected bulletin boards changed their splash screens to express the students' dissatisfactions. In particular, the soccer board of the BBS of Tsinghua University has changed their splash to the Chinese character "CAO" -- meaning "F*CK" in English. The access limitations were mainly targeting users logging on from outside China, meaning that Chinese students in the U.S. can no longer access these BBSs now, but there's no more limitation than before for people inside mainland China. Also, registering users by their real identities have been a practice by most university BBSs since a long long time ago.
BTW, I really hate people saying the word "brainwashed", I'd rather think everybody is brainwashed by his/her own surroundings.
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She is the daughter of an Microsoft Employee. Doesn't that explain all?
Yes, you are right. The BBSs are only open to on-campus users now.
For the real ID thing, I meant that I had to give my real name when registering for an username. Of course the username can be arbitrary, and the real name is not visible except to the admin'tors. That was my experience for most BBSs I used.
Anyway, Chinese students everywhere are very sad about this incident.
I am a Nanjing University alumni, the version of the story I heard from my schoolmates is that the admin team of Lily BBS (BBS of Nanjing University) planned a mass quit but was persuaded not to by the president of the university. A dozen of other university BBSs were affected as well. On the first day following this incident, many of the affected bulletin boards changed their splash screens to express the students' dissatisfactions. In particular, the soccer board of the BBS of Tsinghua University has changed their splash to the Chinese character "CAO" -- meaning "F*CK" in English. The access limitations were mainly targeting users logging on from outside China, meaning that Chinese students in the U.S. can no longer access these BBSs now, but there's no more limitation than before for people inside mainland China. Also, registering users by their real identities have been a practice by most university BBSs since a long long time ago.
BTW, I really hate people saying the word "brainwashed", I'd rather think everybody is brainwashed by his/her own surroundings.
I am a brainwashed Chinese. If the government dosen't ban the game. I will ban it myself.