Posts Tagged: real name


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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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China’s New Internet Law Legalizes Deletion of “Illegal” Content, Bad News for Sina Weibo

China’s tightened internet controls were passed into law earlier today. As well as requiring broad...

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  • December 28, 2012
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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
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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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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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Decoding Sina Weibo’s Real-Name Strategy

It’s no secret that Sina Weibo’s laissez-faire attitude towards implementing real-name r...

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  • April 2, 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
  • at 1:45 pm
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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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China Approves Law Requiring Real Name Web Access

As was suspected might happen earlier this week, authorities in China have approved a law requiring ...

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  • December 28, 2012
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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 Weibo’s New Credit System is Just a Number-Crunching Way to Ban Loose-Lipped Users

Sina Weibo’s new points-based ‘credit’ system is now live, representing a new sort...

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  • May 29, 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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The Sina Weibo App is Very, Very Addictive!

The real-name saga is ongoing in China, but I’m still able to tweet via Sina Weibo through its...

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  • April 4, 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
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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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