QQ, the largest instant messaging system in China, is now requiring users to register their real names. The official notice very clearly hints that they were forced to do so by the Public Security Bureau.
This is not new. Earlier this year the CCP Government required online BBSes to do the same; many or the largest and most popular ones closed down as a result. Together with the new laws requiring Internet content providers (Web sites for example) to register with the PSU, the CCP is really trying its hardest to wield absolute control over the Internet. Or at least the part that’s inside their borders.
Will we ever see a censor-free online environment in China in our lifetime? Just thinking about this is disgusting…
From the article, Tencent is not requiring all QQ users to register their real names but only those who want to organize online chatrooms or groups.
There will never be censorship-free internet in Mainland China when China is under the communist party’s rule. No freedom of speech, period.
Yeah, and how long will it take before Tencent is required to enforce it on everybody?
CCP will continue to censor as long as they are afraid. And they will continue to be afriad as long as their power is held by guns and not by people’s votes.