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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