{"id":705,"date":"2023-10-24T03:58:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/china-banning-anonymous-comments\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T03:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:53","slug":"china-banning-anonymous-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/china-banning-anonymous-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"China Banning Anonymous Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Chinese netizens will soon be unable to comment anonymously and hide their real identity behind empty accounts on Chinese sites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chinese netizens will soon be unable to comment anonymously and hide their real identity behind empty accounts on Chinese sites.<\/p>\n<h5> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FrSaR3DHAJp1xQDO1SI2iiPF10bi?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"589\" height=\"491.815\" title=\"\"><br \/><\/h5>\n<p>Photo\uff1aInternet&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>According to a new regulation released by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on Friday, Chinese news and social media websites and applications are required to undergo identity verification of users to determine account ownership.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate but related statement, the CAC also added that this is to \u201cthoroughly implement the spirit of the cyber security law\u201d, and to \u201cpromote a healthy and orderly development of the service\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation will be implemented from Oct. 1 onwards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table 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class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/china-banning-anonymous-comments\/#Photo_mothershipsg\" title=\"Photo:mothership.sg\">Photo:mothership.sg<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/china-banning-anonymous-comments\/#Cultivating_civilised_online_practice\" title=\"Cultivating civilised online practice\">Cultivating civilised online practice<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/china-banning-anonymous-comments\/#User-grading_system\" title=\"User-grading system\">User-grading system<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_mothershipsg\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FltzzYg1nV-8xNuHbfmC87P6GVNC?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" title=\"\">Photo:mothership.sg<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cultivating_civilised_online_practice\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(227, 55, 55);\">Cultivating civilised online practice<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the regulation, all forms of comments can only be made under verified accounts.<\/p>\n<p>This includes \u201cbullet screen\u201d comments (danmu), a popular feature among young Chinese users where comments scroll across the screen while a video is playing.<\/p>\n<p>However, although user accounts require identity verification with real names, users do not have to display their real names when commenting.<\/p>\n<p>All comments are required to be filtered by service providers through a \u201creal-time review system\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"User-grading_system\"><\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(227, 55, 55);\"><b>User-grading system<\/b><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>The statement also included regulations on user account management.<\/p>\n<p>Service providers were required to issue warnings, hide and delete comments, or terminate accounts of users who violate the regulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">They were also required to establish a \u201cuser-grading system\u201d, where service providers would have to evaluate user accounts\u2019 actions according to the grading system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">If a user account is evaluated with low performance under the grading system, the account 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