Comments on: Chinese Net Comment Policy on Steroids — Your ID, Please

By: tom

tom — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:55:35 +0000

it will never work and chinese authorities rarely implement what they set up. With hundreds of millions of netizens, it is simply impossible to scrutinize the ids and names one by one.
During SARS and H1N1, every passenger crossing borders is required to fill in form declaring them free of symptoms and viruses, nobody does it seriously, false names and false ids are used. so basically this rule is crippled by the massive amount of people, people’s unwillingness of disclose true identity and most importantly nobody enforces it.
and the only result is waste and ineffeciency.

By: DavidFeng

DavidFeng — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:27:42 +0000

@JeffreyJDavis: They could still game the system (with, say, fake ID numbers and bogus addresses). (OK, then the censors would up the security with — I dunno. Scarier censorship upgrades? Biometric comments? Anything’s possible — especially in the run-up to the Big Sixty…)

By: DavidFeng

DavidFeng — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:25:50 +0000

@gregorylent: Don’t have a link, but this is what popped up on Twitter in Chinese:

RT @freemoren: 中宣部等部门下达指令，要求各门户网站务必在8月15日将新闻评论功能改为“实名制”，用户使用时将填写身份证、居住地址等必填选项（来源1984BBS）

By: Jeffrey J Davis

Jeffrey J Davis — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:04:33 +0000

David-

I certainly hope that it is not REALLY coming to this?!?!?

I don’t understand the real benefit, unless each blog installs some technology to verify ID numbers and cross-ref to names etc. I would imagine anyone that wanted to comment anything semi-controversial would use a faux ID number?

Am I missing something?

China continues to amaze me.

let freedom ring.

best,

@JeffreyJDavis
ID#6969696969
http://www.jeffreyjdavis.com

By: gregorylent

gregorylent — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:02:02 +0000

a link in chinese? i want to show a friend .. thanks