China Expands Mandatory Real Name Policy to Entire Country
Over the course of the last few years China has been running a trial of getting social networks to collect the full real names of all of their users. Currently on popular networks like the Twitter clone Sina Weibo and Facebook clone QQ, users have the ability to be anonymous. The government states it is simply doing this for accountability purposes, but in 2010 a woman was sentenced to a year in a labor camp due to a retweet.
They’re now expanding the trial program to all over China.
The trial was first run in Shanghai, Beijing and some other major Chinese cities, and we reported that Shanghai was adamant about enforcing the rule.
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