China loves repression like the English love football riots, and today's Communist smackdown comes courtesy of a new law requiring all online gamers to register with their real names online. No more hiding behind a screen name in China. From now on, everybody knows who everybody is, or at least the government knows who everybody is, and that's the main thing.
Zhang Yijun, director of the General Administration of Press and Publication's Technology and Digital Publication Department is cited as the source of this new rule. He also has a ridiculously extravagant job title.
According to a report in People's Daily Online, this follows the suspense of operations of four online gaming companies who "did not have the mandatory anti-addiction system," whatever that means. Either way, Chinese gamers now have a little bit more bollocks to contend with, so hooray for that.
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9:20 AM on 01.16.2009
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I'd love that on XBlive though, people would be a LOT more careful about what they say if their real name would be in their gamertag ( and preferably adress-details in the gamerprofile ) 'cause you could actually go kick their asses in real life :-)
( or at least notify the parents of an 8-year-old that he's playing a Mature-onlygame :-))
whatever that is
Well, ok, you can make charitable donations, send white powder in the mail, make bomb threats ...
See, no one wants anybody to be able to do those things on the internet ... am I right?
Go China!!
It's not football, It's SOCCER riots you brits enjoy...
The NFL, Now THAT'S FOOTBALL!!! :P
Not anymore.
"They would be like, "Ooooh I wanna suck yous guys dicks off."
Then they'd say, "What's your names?"
I'd be like, "Motherfuckin' Jay and Silent Bob. Recognize."
Then she'd say, "I read on the internet that you two were a couple of little fuck holes." And then they'd go suck two other guys dicks off. Well, fuck that."
I think their having a World of Warcraft restaurant in Beijing clears China of any wrong doing.
Also, I don't know how less anonymous they'll be with all dem Nguyens running around OMG racist!
You're crazy if you actually think people in China can access this website. Even if they could, do you honestly think they're going to write on here badmouthing the Chinese government?
Yeah, no kidding. For our own best interests, of course ;)
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