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on Saturday February 28 2015, @03:47AM
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Starting March 1, China will ban internet accounts that impersonate people or organizations, and enforce the requirement that people use real names when registering accounts online, its internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), said on Wednesday.
The new regulations are part of efforts to impose real-name registration requirements on internet users and halt the spread of rumors online, the CAC said. Internet companies will have the responsibility to enforce the rules.
On Tuesday, the CAC accused NetEase Inc, a U.S.-listed Chinese web portal, of spreading rumors and pornography. And last month, 133 WeChat accounts were shut down for "distorting history", state media reported.
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You will contract a rare disease.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mendax on Saturday February 28 2015, @05:53AM
My ass! Essentially, China is doing what has been tried in this country on several occasions, that is to make anonymous speech and association illegal, or at least very impractical.
Fortunately, Americans generally don't have to worry about it thanks to numerous U.S. Supreme Court decisions over the last 50+ years have made it abundantly clear that anonymous speech is a First Amendment right, one that is very difficult to infringe without a very, very good reason.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 28 2015, @06:29AM
That's terrorist talk! "Terrorism" is any speech we don't like. You have no rights or freedoms. Lick the jackboot, peon.
(Score: 3, Touché) by NotSanguine on Saturday February 28 2015, @06:37AM
anonymous speech is a First Amendment right, one that is very difficult to infringe without a very, very good reason.
That's terrorist talk! "Terrorism" is any speech we don't like. You have no rights or freedoms. Lick the jackboot, peon.
Says the Anonymous Coward. You do see the irony, I hope.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 28 2015, @07:09AM
Proud to be an Anonymous Terrorist.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday February 28 2015, @09:37PM
Sieg heil!
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.