Real-Name Registration Threatens the Lively World of China’s Microblogs

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/opinion_anxiaochinamicroblog/

by pessimizer • 14 years ago

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ChuckMcM• 14 years ago

I don't mean to be rude but is this news? Is this unexpected?

"Police report that shooting criminals dead cuts down on recidivism."

I got a huge exposure to Chinese culture at Google when there was a huge blow up over whether or not the phrase 'free Tibet' was offensive or not. A lot of participation in that discussion came from Google China where engineers who lived and worked in China got to share their point of view on how we in the US perceive the way of things.

My take away from that experience was that there are people living in China who believe that their benevolent rulers maintain order in a country that has been operating peacefully for thousands of years and this system is much better and more durable than any sort of populace driven government. Further, those folks believe it is a small minority of trouble makers who "just don't get it" when it comes why this is such a great system.

I don't doubt for a moment these same people are so glad that Sino Weibo will demand real names so that those trouble makers will either shut up or get arrested and put some place where they can stop interfering in the harmonious existence of the country.

In short, I learned that two people who had been educated in the science of critical thinking, could look at the same data and come away with two very different conclusions about what that data meant.

hengli• 14 years ago

Korea has this already, I believe?

Real-Name Registration Threatens the Lively World of China’s Microblogs

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