| Penn Olson - Feb 7, 2012 The government claims that it's being implemented to prevent harmful mistruths and rumors getting circulated online, but many skeptics say it is yet another move to repress freedom of speech on China's lively microblogging sites. The real-name ... |
By Michael Kan, IDG News By March 16, users of China's Twitter-like microblogging sites will be required to register with their real names in a government effort to stop harmful information from spreading on social media sites. |
| ComputerworldUK - Feb 10, 2012 Read more But as unpopular as it maybe, China's new regulation to control its Twitter-like social networking services won't be enough to drive off Cao. |
| New York Times - Jan 18, 2012 The government has said that it is studying real-name registration of microbloggers to limit the spread of malicious rumors, pornography, swindles and other unhealthy practices on microblogs, which have become a major source of news for many Chinese. |
But in China, the rapid sharing of brief messages with a community of followers is called "microblogging," and the most popular microblog service is Sina Weibo. |
The Moderate Voice - Feb 2, 2012 All microblogs registered in Beijing also have to register with their real name with the police. China's largest technology and IT firms are supporting this. |
| Radio Free Asia - Jan 19, 2012 China has announced it will expand controls on 330 million users of the country's hugely popular Twitter-like services, in a move critics say will curb microblogs as a vital source of news and unofficial opinion. Real-name registration is necessary to ... |
As Chinese Communist authorities try to enforce real name registration policy for online microblogs, netizens across China are boycotting. Many users are moving their posts to new online homes. Especially since the July Wenzhou train crash, ... |
Internet Evolution - Jan 23, 2012 That seems to be the message of a heavily publicized push by China's central government to require users of microblogging sites, such as Weibo, to register under their real names. “Currently, this type of registration is being tested in Beijing, ... |
He added: “Microblogging is a new medium that can spread information rapidly and have a big influence. It covers a wide population and can mobilise people. |
China Economic Review - Jan 16, 2012 The fast growth of China's Twitter-like microblogs is likely to slow as the market becomes saturated and the government steps up regulation, The Wall Street Journal reported, quoting the results of a survey conducted by the China Internet Network ... |
MarketWatch (press release) - Jan 27, 2012 Half of these Internet users are using weibos -- microblogs similar to Twitter -- that can circumvent the country's powerful censors. |
| ZDNet UK - Jan 17, 2012 By Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia, 17 January, 2012 11:03 Microblogging and online buying through coupon sites each grew more than 200 percent in China last year, making these online activities the fastest growing in the country, according to an official ... |
| According to Reuters, China will expand real-name registration for microblog users in a bid to control China's wildly popular Twitter-like websites. While the officials admit that microblogs are useful as an outlet for critical public opinion, ... |
| The Atlantic Wire - Jan 18, 2012 After the Chinese government realized that Weibo, a Twitter-esque microblogging service, gave rise to "irrational voices and negative opinions and harmful information" -- in the words of Wang Chen the deputy director of Communist Party's propaganda ... |
| Shanghaiist - Feb 7, 2012 Sina Weibo, the market leader in the microblogging segment, appears to be already feeling the heat. Chinese news reports about the March 16 deadline state that since January 1 Sina has had approximately 3 million real name registrations. |
The Diplomat - Jan 30, 2012 Yu Jianrong, another influential academic and head of the Rural Development Institute Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has also announced his departure from the microblogging world, citing the poor attitude of Sina administrators towards netizens. |
Seeking Alpha - Feb 2, 2012 The key risks include: (1) regulatory risks; (2) slowdown of Chinese economy; (3) competition from microblogs; (4) rising cost of Nuomi. |
| Written by ![]() in 2,636 Google+ circles The Next Web - Jan 30, 2012 The move, which has already been welcomed by the government of Thailand and praised by Chinese government mouthpiece Global Times, caused controversy amongst users who accused the microblogging site of caving in to censorship. |
DailyFinance - Jan 24, 2012 But a culture of censorship and control permeates China's Internet culture, and a new effort to enforce a real-name registration process could dampen the growth of the social-networking movement. SINA's (NAS: SINA) popular Weibo microblogging site ... |
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