Chinese users of the Weibos service must register under real names

In China, as you know, there is own Google - Baidu, there is also own Twitter - Weibos. This microblogging service is quite popular, and now the user base has about 200 million users. Well, since in China the provisions of Internet censorship are strong enough, the officials could not help but pay attention to this service. After attention was paid to the service, the Chinese authorities concluded that users of this service should be registered under real names.

Existing users must also perform real authentication, and they have three months to indicate their real data. In the service itself, nothing will change - users will communicate with each other not under real names, but under the same nicknames. But the service administration will have all the trump cards in its hands - in the sense of the real data of each user. So, if someone says something wrong, you can immediately understand who did it.
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In general, for China, such actions are quite normal. Since a year ago, everyone who wanted to register a domain in the Chinese .cn zone (I must say, before the zone was closed for domain registration by foreign citizens, it was a refuge for dorveyschikam, spammers and other figures, the domain registration in this zone cost a penny) to provide your passport and register domain for real data. And yes, this zone was closed from registration by foreign citizens. Maybe this is right.

In addition, many popular resources have a content tracking system that helps censor information posted by bloggers. We tried to implement such a system in Weibos, but here every day billions of messages are generated, and the capacity is simply not enough. Apparently, this is why Chinese microbloggers are now required to provide personal data. Here is such an Internet censorship.

Via abc.net