Monday, October 23, 2006
China bloggers forced to fess up
If you want to instantly turn blogging content into dishwater or largely propaganda, just follow the model the Chinese government is considering - bloggers using their real names. That's not to say you can't have a totally whacked blog name in China like 750 Volts-The Third Rail on the Left Side or 1/2deadstock. Rather, the Chinese blogger would have to register his or her blog using his or her real name so the government could act if said blogger was spreading hooliganish falsehoods (that's the Chinese government interpretation of falsehood, BTW...I would NOT want my name used if I saying nasties blogs must be saying nasties about the government). Again, this is another attempt by bureacrats to control the most unruly of mediums, the Internet. It's reminiscent of the Chinese government plan in 1999 when a Chinese citizen had be buy at the nearest Post Office at an exhorbitant price of $75 month.
Can such a blog identification program D plan succeed? Yuk....just the sound of it!http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061023/tc_nm/china_blogs_dc_2
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