China may be the most preferred destination for the FDI’s but this reforming communist state has the strictest and most suppressive internet laws.
Now the Chinese law makers are purposing that internet users should provide real names and ID card numbers when they open a blog as they feel that the anonymity factor has given rise to lot of defamation and insult being put on the blogs.
Under this new law the bloggers will be able to write under pseudo names and there identity will be protected as long as they do nothing which can be termed as illegal.
But what they have failed to understand is the fact that blogging flourishes because the anonymity it provides to the user.
The Chinese record in terms of ‘freedom of expression right’ is also very poor remember the Tiananmen Square massacre and recently jailed a journalist over the news that was published in Times.
Now if this new law is implemented the only place were the 120 million Chinese Internet users have freedom of expression will be severely curtailed.
Via: BBCnews
