{"id":12002,"date":"2010-05-07T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T11:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=12002"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:21:11","slug":"internet-anonymity-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=12002","title":{"rendered":"China to force web users to reveal real names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China may ban anonymous online comments. In<span style=\"font-size: 13.1944px;\"> a <a title=\"China Daily: Ministry: Time to get 'real' on China's Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2010-05\/05\/content_9809398.htm\">China Daily<\/a> article yesterday, government spokesperson <a title=\"Reuters: China guards against &quot;overseas hostile forces&quot; on Web\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6422VK20100503\" target=\"_self\">Wang Chen<\/a> confirmed plans to implement a real-name registration system. Currently, people must register a username in order to post on all major news sites but the new measures will introduce \u201can identity authentication system for users of online bulletin board[s]\u201d, as well comment posting. This will effectively make it easier for authorities to target those vocalising \u00a0subversive opinions online.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China may ban anonymous online comments. In a China Daily article yesterday, government spokesperson Wang Chen confirmed plans to implement a real-name registration system. Currently, people must register a username in order to post on all major news sites but the new measures will introduce \u201can identity authentication system for users of online bulletin board[s]\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585,1],"tags":[662,7364,64,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12011,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions\/12011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}