some_beer_drinker: I don't think that word means what you think it means...

Which word?

some_beer_drinker: fusillade762: some_beer_drinker: I don't think that word means what you think it means...

Which word?

the free speech part

So being able to round up and arrest people who criticize the government on the internet isn't cracking down on free speech?

I wonder if " Mr. Lee " was taken?

looks like subby doesn't understand what a free speech crackdown is.

serial_crusher: The measure would require service providers to ask users to provide their real names and other identifying information if they want to post information publicly or sign up for access to the internet and telephone services, Xinhua said.

Isn't that basically how it works in America?  You try signing up for an ISP or phone company without providing your name and billing address.

They can always use a Virtual Private Netwok.

What's the Chinese equivalent of Weedlord Bonerhitler?

Or maybe Gene Masseth

Isn't the Brits doing the same thing?

I'm typing this from a small work factory dorm. I made 4360 iPhones today and feel suicidal.
Taking away my internet privileges like trolling or making disparaging remarks about the government will not make me any happier.
I hear we'll be making another version of the iPad soon. YipeeYay. I'm so privileged.

: (

But anyway, how about them Muslim rapists in India?! Religion of Peace, hahaha!

In what sense is this surprising, unexpected or inconsistent?

Enjoy your products. The blood wipes away with a little Mr. Clean.

why are fark liberals so ignorant that they say Republicans are pushing for this in america when it's their own messiah doing it?

Fark liberals are the most ignorant farkers on the internet

So, if a Chinese registry of internet users is a precursor to a crack down on free speech, what is a Fienstien gun ban that requires owners of legally purchased and owned weapons to register them?

Oh those silly, authoritarian Chinese!

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook:

"I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away," she said during a panel discussion on social media hosted Tuesday evening by Marie Claire magazine. "People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. ... I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors."

Eric Schmidt, Google:

Speaking on a panel at the event, Schmidt argued that anonymity on the Internet is dangerous. "In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you," he said.

Schmidt took the stance that governments may eventually put an end to anonymity. "We need a [verified] name service for people," he said. "Governments will demand it."

Farkers love and hate the Chinese, as they love and hate themselves.

MadSkillz: What is it about Communist (at least in name) governments that they're so farking insecure about keeping their people in line? The simplification of their language by editing the characters down was like "newspeak" in 1984.

Simple. Their legitimacy, as a government, is that the people are happy, and things are improving.

So, the people are happy, and things are improving.

No matter what.

Anger tends to lead to riots here in China, too.

China is and always will be a shiathole until they fix this infatuation with controlling the internet.

The Chinese can do whatever the Chinese want so long as the crazy stays on their side of the line.
What scares me is people like Feinstein and company take notes from them because these things sound like good ideas in their warped little minds.

/mark my words, registration is coming this way too.
/its gonna be part of some "save the children" act that sneaks through before a holiday.

MadSkillz: What is it about Communist (at least in name) governments that they're so farking insecure about keeping their people in line? The simplification of their language by editing the characters down was like "newspeak" in 1984.

Actually, to put it another way: These types of governments manage their people.

Just like how your typical corporation has rules saying that you can't badmouth the boss and keep your job (your livelihood).

Amazing! Korea just went the opposite way this year. You used to have to have a Korean ID number to access a number of web sites or make comments. They just eliminated that requirement about 6 months ago.

Mike_LowELL: Good.  I'm sick of trolls who hide behind fictitious personalities and spew garbage.  I can say this, since I am the head of a multi-billion dollar corporation and you are all poor and smelly liberals.  Lol.  Get stenched, nerds.

How many years did you serve? If you aren't a green beret seal 9/11 victim and holocaust survivor and ww2 vet who fought and died so that aholes like you have the right to spew that kind of garbage then you should just shut the hell up and let those of us who earned it speak. Semper Fictus!

doglover: Weaver95: i'm sort of expecting the GOP to try to push this sort of legislation here in the US.

They already is.

One of these days you're going to figure out that the people in power on the left, such as Obama, Pelosi, and the like are not the same as the rank and file liberal on the left.

And almost without exception, when the people in power on the left are left unchecked they will push through massive government control of everything because its "what's best" for "everyone" and by "everyone" they mean them and by "what's best" they mean control of the money.

Left, Right, Democracy, Dictatorship, doesn't matter. Politicians are naturally paranoid in the same way dogs lick their balls.

Haliburton Cummings: tortilla burger: China Corrupt Governments is are and always will be a shiatholes until they fix this infatuation with controlling the internet populace via a police state.

ftfy

you must be the gothiest goth in your whole clan. the wage slaves at cinnabon just don't understand.