China forbids anonymous online posts
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Article 15 of the Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services stipulates that Internet information service providers shall not make, reproduce, publish or disseminate information containing the following: (1) opposing the basic principles as defined in the Constitution; (2) endangering national security (3) to damage national honor and interests; (4) to incite national hatred, ethnic discrimination and undermine national unity; (v) to undermine national religious policies and to promote cults and (6) spreading rumors, disrupting social order and destroying social stability; (7) spreading pornography, pornography, gambling, violence, murder, terror or abetting a crime; (8) insulting or slandering others and infringing upon others (9) Any other content that is prohibited by laws and administrative regulations.
What's with pornography in China? I understand they make face that they oppose it, but I imagine it's quite impossible to make 1G people not try to push this envelope. How does it work?
Are there any articles about state of things?
Recently the government banned online social media video posts in which young women sensually and provocatively ate bananas. I'll leave the details to your imagination. It was getting to be quite a trend, so the authorities stamped on it. Soon after that the government started requiring he big upload services to manually vet video posts, and put heavy restrictions on broadcast live streams.
Simon Hibbs
Can you possibly be saying that China should be used as the model nation for human rights? Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock would find that hard to do.
And no, I'm not saying that China is a model for human rights. But maxing out your human rights stat doesn't necessarily mean you will develop the best society, or a society that lasts.
So it basically depends how your governement treats you. Either as a bunch of children that need to be managed, or as responsible adults that need to take care of themselves.
The ideal is somewhere in the middle.
Even if you really want to sleep with your neighbors wife, it doesn't mean society needs to accept or encourage that action.
This is a private affair, between the wife, the husband and you.
It can be a concern for the community but it has nothing to do with the government !!!
We openly bypassed the firewall to access Google Analytics data through VPN and nobody batted an eye. China can't afford to crack down on that without scaring off pretty much every foreign company looking to do business on the mainland.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South...
This sounds like whataboutism - if you follow the link and read the wikipedia page, it seems like lots of people made lots of fuss about it, including the United Nations, EFF, S.Korean press etc.
It feels like you feel you have to defend the Chinese government. That's your good right, just don't use a strawman. It doesn't make your point stronger.
SK and a bunch of other countries have censored Internet, but China has the largest population of them all. Anything the world's largest country does, is likely to raise far more scrutiny.
Clickbait title. The article doesn't even say that.
> China doubles down on real-name registration laws, forbidding anonymous online posts
"anonymous online posts"
"the country’s top Internet censor announced a new set of regulations (link via Google Translate) meant to eliminate posts by anonymous users on Internet forums and other platforms." Just click on the link for a reasonable translation of the rule.
Also, the post is all about how China is eliminating posts by anonymous users on Internet. Not sure what you mean by "its not in the content"?
First, It's not new. Second, it's the same things in the USA and EU since as long as there were ISP.
There is really nothing about forbidding anonymous posts on the internet.
BUT, if you translate the regulation itself (http://www.cac.gov.cn/2017-08/25/c_1121541921.htm) it does appear that it outlaws forum posts by anonymous users:
These Provisions shall apply to the Internet forums within the territory of the People 's Republic of China. The term "Internet forum community service" as mentioned in these Provisions refers to the provision of interactive information publishing community platform in the form of forums, postings, communities and so on.
then
Article 8 Internet forum community service providers shall, in accordance with the principle of "backstage real name and front desk voluntarily", require the user to register the account through the authentication of the authenticity information and carry out the verification of the true identity information of the sponsor and the manager. Users do not provide real identity information, Internet forum community service providers shall not provide information dissemination services.
So yes, this does seem to require real name verification for forums.
(Also, Google Translate is a miracle of the age)
I wonder if there is a market for a verified Online Real Identity service that could be used to solve some of these cancerous corners of the internet that comes with anonymity.
Facebook comments don't seem to stop these. I'm shocked at what people post under their real name with a social media link handy.
The service could have cleaned itself up instead of being removed.
The problem is that social reprisals depend on social status; part of privilege is being able to post abuse without adverse consequences.
I've long ago stopped commenting under my real name. I no longer sign up to services that require google / twitter / other account linking. And I have now stopped discussing any sensitive topics even when I'm writing under a pseudonym. The risk of blow back is simply too big.
"exaggerated morality play about the dangers of conformity and the small pleasures of individuality". - The Verge
You mean how uninteresting, fake and boring reddit would have been and is starting to become because of censorship? Do you think lgbt or atheist or porn subs or joke subs any other subreddits would exist without anonymity?
> The return of commment sections on major news articles (the shit show or sexist racist trolls would stop almost immediately if you faced real life consequences).
Perhaps sexist or racist comments may decline - I highly doubt it. But so would every other type of comments - including lgbt, atheism, anti-drugs, anti-corruption, etc.
Sexism and racism existed long before reddit and the internet and will exist long after reddit.
> I wonder if there is a market for a verified Online Real Identity service that could be used to solve some of these cancerous corners of the internet that comes with anonymity.
If you don't like, then don't visit it?
Who decides what's cancerous? You? The chinese government?
You think only things you dislike will be censored. More than likely, it won't but the things you agree with will be censored.
Honestly, what's next? Lets start burning books and get rid of libraries because they have bad words?
If you don't like anonymous forums, why don't you just make one of your own with verified identities? See how interesting that is?
-- Yonatan Zunger, former chief architect, Google+
In anonymous places like 4chan you can say whatever you want, and from my personal experience, it does tend to generate a lot more diversity and honest discussion than reddit. Of course, you get a bunch of shitpost and racism, but then again, those are pretty much the pillars of internet discussions nowadays.
Almost everyone who talks about "real identity" confuses it with "legal identity" and uses government documentation for verification. This would keep basically everyone except the most privileged out of public conversations.