China Moving To Force All Bloggers To Use Real Names | Geekosystem

Posted by KaNisa on Jun 7, 2012 in Culture, Social Media | 0 comments

China, no friend of the Internet to begin with, is now entertaining provisions that would further restrict free Internet use in the country by making online anonymity virtually impossible. The proposed changes involve updating the country’s “Methods for Governance of Internet Information Services” such that the definition of “Internet information service providers” includes forums and blogs of all kinds. Effectively, this outlaws the use of pseudonyms by forum users or bloggers.

China Moving To Force All Bloggers To Use Real Names | Geekosystem.