Microblogging will have to be used by real name in China

[enver criticism]

from March 16,microblogging will have to be used by real name in Beijing.Otherwise,you can only read but not say anything

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

All the "Anti-Imperialists" on this forum don't realize that the same laws used against capitalist opposition activists in China are also used against real communists and worker's rights advocates.

Can you explain more about the possible effects? I'm guessing it means a lot more social and political pressure on opposition activists

[Q]

Is there a source on this? How will this be implemented? Can it be circumvented via proxies, etc?

[enver criticism]

In fact there is something called wall for chinese.it is created by a professer from beijing university of posts and telecommunications.we can not surf many web sites including revleft with nothing.still can not go into chatrooms and upload pictures.who can help chinese people?thank you!!!

[enver criticism]

in fact the expenditure of china about (domestic security)(army)and(education and medical) is about 45%.40%and15% of three kinds all

[Sendo]

Is there a source on this? How will this be implemented? Can it be circumvented via proxies, etc?

South Korea did something like this for a while and are going to phase it out relatively soon since it has meant the slow death of domestic websites in favor of foreign ones.

The system only allowed citizens (sometimes legal residents, too) to register to post comments on sites with X amount of visitors per day. You have to give up your social security number, basically. Other posters only see your handle or username but the real name is on records.

It was a pain in the ass and unnecessary. Private companies in the West are pretty much enforcing "real name" protocols; see Facebook and Google. Yahoo and Google have always been complicit in India and the US's requests for info anyway (Yahoo in China as well). So much of the internet is regulated by organizations based in the US. The US is the world's lone superpower, etc etc etc

Bottom line, they (however you define "they") can find out your real name in most cases regardless. It's not that hard to pull off either, most people born after 1990 consider it normal to hand over all their information and sensitive data to people on the internet whether it be to everyone over Facebook or government form X or company form Y.