Related discussion from yesterday (177 comments)
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109626" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109626</a>
> <i>The CAC also specified what content is forbidden from being published online (link and translation via Google Translate), citing a list from a 2000 bill regulating Internet information services in China. The list is so broad that it can cover almost anything:<p>Article 15 of the Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services stipulates that Internet information service providers shall not make, reproduce, publish or disseminate information containing the following: (1) opposing the basic principles as defined in the Constitution; (2) endangering national security (3) to damage national honor and interests; (4) to incite national hatred, ethnic discrimination and undermine national unity; (v) to undermine national religious policies and to promote cults and (6) spreading rumors, disrupting social order and destroying social stability; (7) spreading pornography, pornography, gambling, violence, murder, terror or abetting a crime; (8) insulting or slandering others and infringing upon others (9) Any other content that is prohibited by laws and administrative regulations.</i>
As I understand it, this only applies to services hosted within China; if you can get past the Great Firewall and into the "greater Internet", then you're free to post as anonymously as you want.
Well South Korea also requires real name when posting on major websites. I wonder why nobody made a fuss about that when they did it many years ago.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_Korea" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South...</a>
Is this the path the western world will take eventually? Anonymity is a very powerful tool for the masses to get their point across, it's pretty troublesome if you're the one in power.
Imagine how much better the discussion would be on sites like Reddit if the default was Real Identity and some sections were anonymous. How much better Amazon reviews would be. The return of commment sections on major news articles (the shit show or sexist racist trolls would stop almost immediately if you faced real life consequences).<p>I wonder if there is a market for a verified Online Real Identity service that could be used to solve some of these cancerous corners of the internet that comes with anonymity.