Tencent Executive Criticizes Chinese Government's Request for Users' Real Names
Following Shanghai’s recent move ordering Sina Weibo — China’s Twitter equivalent — to have users report their real names to keep better tabs on them, China’s Tencent has announced that they will not ask users of their QQ social network to provide their real names. The announcement came from Chief Executive Pony Ma and is in opposition to many real-name policies being activated across China.
The Chinese government is attempting to get the Chinese networks to demand their users to provide their real names out of fear of criminal activity on the networks.
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