real-name registration

China’s government has been saying it’s getting serious about real-name mobile registration for years. But could this latest campaign actually be the one?a

If you like using Alipay or WeChat Pay, you’d better get your name in there quickly.

This has been an eventful year for internet freedom (or lack thereof) in China. The latest Freedom on the Net study from American NGO Freedom House was published today, showing

Techweb reports Sina removed 5,500 “misleading” accounts, while Tencent purged nearly 26,000 from QQ, WeChat, and Tencent Weibo.

Real-name registration is one thing. But now the Chinese government plans to control what actual usernames web users are allowed to choose.

Chinese internet authorities have embarked on yet another campaign to force netizens to register online accounts using their real names.

China’s government says it’s finally getting serious, and this time there will be no loopholes!

The aim is to discourage developers from anonymously pushing apps containing pornographic content and viruses, both of which are illegal in China.

China’s State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) yesterday issued a notice that proposes, among other things, anyone who uploads a video to the internet must be registered on

China’s State Information Office director Lu Wei published an article in the People’s Daily yesterday on the importance of online public opinion work – what some might call propaganda and