23 Oct 2006
China Moving to Real Name Registrations for Blogs

Because the Chinese government knows that anonymity is a keystone of freedom.

China is moving to require people to use their real names when blogging. The proposed solution, arrived at by the Internet Society of China (affiliated with the ministry of information) would allow bloggers to use a pseudonym when blogging as long as they used their real name when registering.

(link) [Slashdot]

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