China won't require blogger registration


It's voluntary for now, which is still better than the original plan

Here's one I am happy to pass on.

A surprising turn of events could mean the Chinese government will not require bloggers to provide their real names to a central registry.

The potential for damaging the rapidly growing Internet industry may have influenced Beijing into backing off a long-desired plan to match bloggers' online identities with the real people behind them.

People's Daily Online said prominent Internet companies complained about the registration requirement, one that the central government has long coveted. Instead of a compulsory registration, bloggers will be encouraged to place their names on that list.

Maybe not a full win, but it goes in the plus column.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - May 24, 2007 at 01:29 PM  Tag


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