Posts Tagged: real-name registration


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Chinese Law Proposes Real Name Requirements for All Phone and Mobile Network Connections

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is very enthusiastic about real...

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  • April 11, 2013
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Lax Real-Name Policies Hurting Chinese Dating Sites

We’ve written quite a bit about the lax enforcement of real-name policies on Chinese social ne...

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  • December 18, 2012
  • at 4:27 am
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Sina Weibo Adds Overseas Real-Name System, But Not Really

As part of yet another drive to make Sina Weibo more “honest,” the company has upgraded ...

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  • November 1, 2012
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Why I Think Real Name Registration Hasn’t Really Affected Sina Weibo

We’ve done an awful lot of talking about weibo real-name registration here at Tech in Asia, be...

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  • April 16, 2012
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Sina, Tencent Weibo Punished for Spreading Rumors [UPDATED: All Comments Banned]

According to a Xinhua report from late Friday evening, a spokesman from China’s National Inter...

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  • March 31, 2012
  • at 1:22 am
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More Strange Things on Post-Real-Name Sina Weibo

As the realities of real-name regulation on Sina Weibo begin to set in, we thought we’d check ...

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  • March 19, 2012
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March 16 Deadline is Here, Unregistered Accounts Still Posting on Weibo

Today is March 16. In other words, this is zero hour for microblog real-name registration in China, ...

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  • March 16, 2012
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Sina Weibo Allows ‘Real Name’ Registration Via SMS, Can Be Cheated

China’s top microblog services, such as Sina Weibo, are just two days away from enacting new &...

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  • March 14, 2012
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WeChat Begins Real-Name Verification for Open Platform Users

Tencent’s WeChat mobile chat app is quickly becoming much more than just a chat app, and one o...

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  • April 4, 2013
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Weixin Reinstates Real-Name User Verification, Allows Weibo Users to Auto-Verify

Tencent’s mobile messaging behemoth Weixin (known as WeChat outside China) is, like other Chin...

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  • November 22, 2012
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Sina Admits to Investors It Has Failed to Implement Real Name Policy on Weibo

Sina (NASDAQ:SINA), which runs the popular Twitter-like Weibo.com, has publicly admitted that it has...

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  • April 30, 2012
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China’s Attempt to Banish Online Rumors is as Vague as the War On Terror

The ‘Internet Society of China’ (ISC) has today released a paper entitled Written Propos...

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  • April 9, 2012
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How to Post to Sina Weibo Without Registering Your Real Name

Well, we’re a couple weeks into the real-name regulations at Sina Weibo, and it seems like non...

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  • March 30, 2012
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Very Strange Things Are Happening with Sina Weibo’s “Real-Name” Registration

We’ve been talking about real-name registration for microblogs in China for some time now, and...

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  • March 18, 2012
  • at 12:19 pm
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Weipocalypse Now: With Real-Name Deadline Looming, the Numbers Don’t Look Great

Tomorrow is March 16, the deadline imposed by the Beijing government for the implementation of real-...

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  • March 15, 2012
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As Real-name Registration Looms, Chinese Microblogger Registers with GFW Creator’s Name

Real-name registration is coming to Chinese microblogs. Perhaps in protest of that, or just in prote...

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  • March 5, 2012
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