China to Ban Anonymous Online Comments, Blacklist Users

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: August 27, 2017 at 10:54:40 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] China to Ban Anonymous Online Comments, Blacklist Users
>
>
> China to Ban Anonymous Online Comments, Blacklist Users
>
> https://globalvoices.org/2017/08/27/china-to-ban-anonymous-online-comment-blacklist-users/
>
>      As of October 1, 2017, Chinese netizens who have not
>    registered their user accounts with online platforms under a
>    new real name system will not be able to post comments on
>    online content, while bans await trouble-makers.  "The
>    Regulation on the Management of Internet Comments" was
>    announced by the Cyberspace Administration of China on August
>    25. The regulation specifies that platforms that provide
>    services for netizens to comment on original content,
>    including films, posts, online games or news, should force
>    users to provide their authentic identity via an individual
>    user account system before posting. Platform operators should
>    not offer such services to those who have not verified their
>    identity.  The regulation will dramatically reduce space for
>    online comments as large number of unauthenticated users will
>    not be able to write original posts and leave comments.
>    Moreover, many platforms will be unable to bear the burden of
>    the identity verification system ... Controversially, the
>    regulation also specifies in Article 9 that comment service
>    operators should manage their users by rating their 'social
>    credit', an algorithm to measure a person's overall "goodness"
>    as a citizen Those with low credit should be blacklisted from
>    posting and prevented from registering new accounts to use the
>    service. At the same time, state, province and city-level
>    cyberspace affairs offices will set up a management system to
>    evaluate the overall social credit of comment service
>    operators on a regular basis.



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