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A comment on China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verification for Online Commenting. Parent comment

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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