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Re:China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verificatio... by coldtea on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:11PM (#15112176)
>Only the Chinese government can get away with something unbelievable like these regulations

The US and EU have tons of those sort of things. Patriot Act? Mass surveillance programs? Required ID to get a mobile connection? UK's largest number of CCTVs on any place on earth?

Heck, in the US they can trial you as an adult at 15 and send you to war at 17 but you need to be over 21 and show ID to drink a beer at a bar...

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Re:China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verificatio... by JohnTHaller on Sunday August 27, 2017 @05:59PM (#15113048)
I don't recall having to use my passport before posting online here in the US.
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Re:China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verificatio... by coldtea on Sunday August 27, 2017 @07:29PM (#15113408)
That's because opinions in the US don't have the potential to go far. If they had, they'd be illegal. In China they can tumble a whole state of 1+ billion people and its unstable-is regime.
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